| 1 | Before starting his own [=LPs=], [[Tropers/SorcerorNobody Sorceror Nobody]] participated in a couple with the Final Fantasy Wiki, beginning with the first episode for ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX Final Fantasy X]]'' – which was never released, since the LP didn't get off the ground – and then a handful of the ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyAdventure Final Fantasy Adventure]]'' episodes. It's reasonable to say that Sorc wouldn't have had the confidence to do his own [=LPs=] without the experience from the wiki; however, he finds solo [=LPing=] easier in many ways, because he struggled to balance his level of participation in a group. |
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| 3 | Nearly all of Sorc's own LP series are titled "Nobody Plays X", because {{pun}}. The channel schedule, such as it was, became increasingly flexible over time, getting to a point where he abandoned having specific games on specific days and simply aimed for five videos per week (one every weekday), usually trying to ensure at least three per week, but eventually all concept of a schedule fell apart completely and there is no longer any consistency whatsoever. That said, it remains the case that, whatever date they end up coming out on, the videos are typically released at 7pm UK time. |
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| 5 | You can find Sorc's videos [[https://www.youtube.com/user/SorcerorNobody on his YouTube channel.]] He also [[https://twitch.tv/sorceror_nobody streams on Twitch]] and uploads replays of the streams to his second channel, [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxH4nTm1d8zXI90f4EVNSgQ Bat Conjurer.]] |
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| 8 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 9 | !Universal |
| 10 | [[folder:Tropes for Sorc himself]] |
| 11 | * ArcNumber: Inasmuch as he actually has one, Sorc's arc number is 13. This is mostly due to the fact that his emblem is derived from the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' Nobody emblem, which itself has connotations with the number. It's also reinforced by his secondary personal symbol, the Sorceror l'Cie brand, which carries a connection to ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII''. |
| 12 | * DeadpanSnarker: Sorc is extremely prone to snarky comments. |
| 13 | * {{Fanboy}}: Of the Hermitcraft ''Minecraft'' community. Most especially [=Sl1pg8r=]. [[strike:One could easily make a drinking game out of him mentioning Slip and the other Hermits.]] This ''is'' now part of the [[DrinkingGame/SorcerorNobody drinking game for Sorc's [=LPs=]]]. Also, used "[=Sl1pg8r=]" and "Mumbo Jumbo" as ''Minecraft'' world seeds for vanilla and Modsauce, respectively. And of course, there's also the fact that the Modsauce pack is the official pack for Hermitcraft. |
| 14 | * LovableCoward: |
| 15 | ** Is a seriously jumpy person. Takes an odd sort of pride in the fact that he's a genuine wuss, and thus isn't merely milking supposed jumpiness for a gimmick. His jumpiness is frequently a target of his SelfDeprecation, and he always leaves in any cases of keyboard clatter or other noises that result from his actual physical jumping when startled, then comments on them. |
| 16 | --->''[loud clunk]'' Oof. Ow. Yes, I just hit my hand on the underside of the keyboard tray thing. Ow. 'Cause I'm a jumpy wuss; I thought we knew this by now. |
| 17 | ** As of ''Alundra 2'' episode 22, there is a name for this: the Sorceror Nobody [[{{Pun}} Scaredy Clatter]]. |
| 18 | * PungeonMaster: Making puns is practically one of Sorc's hobbies, both throughout video commentaries and especially in video titles and descriptions. |
| 19 | * SignificantAnagram: States in the LP anniversary video that "Bat Conjurer"[[note]]Which he self-describes as for fun, and which he used as the name for both his ''Minecraft'' camera account and his second Website/YouTube channel[[/note]] is an anagram. |
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| 21 | [[/folder]] |
| 22 | [[folder:Tropes for the [=LPs=] in general]] |
| 23 | * AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Every iteration of his channel schedule, while it had one, assigned Mondays to ''Minecraft''. When ''Minecraft'' was divided into vanilla and modded, this was further invoked by putting modded on Monday (and vanilla on... er... [[ShoehornedFirstLetter Vriday]]). Also, ''Warped'' Wednesdays became a thing for the run of that LP, although in that case, it was simply a consequence of the available slot. |
| 24 | * {{Angrish}}: His commentary sometimes devolves into strings of gibberish (of variable length) when he's frustrated. This is usually caused by things like just missing a jump, or barely mistiming something. ''Crash Bandicoot Warped'' episode 2 features the following example: |
| 25 | -->Don't you dare hit it... WHUNANDVJUJVDIDJVIDJI |
| 26 | * ArtEvolution: A couple of stages of this, mostly after getting Sony Vegas. Obviously, there was an immediate general improvement in the editing quality (and scope for extra flair) due to the better tools available. Then, starting from mid-late February 2015, Sorc implemented much better rendering settings and also began recording and rendering ''all'' of his videos in 60fps. Then he got a new monitor and started recording in 1080p. |
| 27 | * AuthorAppeal: Several of the non-''Minecraft'' [=LPs=] are old favourite games that Sorc first played over a decade ago. |
| 28 | * ContinuityNod: The fourth iteration of the channel trailer, released on new year 2017, uses most of the very first LP-related video Sorc did, two years and seven months prior – the trailer for the original custom modded ''Minecraft'' series – for its opening segment, as a deliberate homage to the entire history of Let's Plays on his channel. |
| 29 | * CoughSnarkCough: Sometimes attempted, but pretty much always edited out, because his microphone is not good enough to pick up that kind of sound without it coming out terrible on the recording. |
| 30 | * FlatWhat: On occasion. A flat "...seriously?" is common, too, sometimes accompanied by "Is this what we're doing now?" |
| 31 | * GoshDangItToHeck: While he is not a non-swearer by nature, Sorc generally avoids strong curses in his LP videos. This policy started right from episode 1 of modded ''{{VideoGame/Minecraft}}'', where he censored his "Shitshitshitshitshit" response to a creeper ambush. While there are some minced oaths where it's pretty clear what word he was going for, the worst words you'll actually ever hear in his videos are the occasional "bastard" directed at specific in-game entities, and a couple of cases of ThisIsForEmphasisBitch |
| 32 | ** "Balls" has emerged as his default response to almost any level of things going wrong. |
| 33 | ** If the game itself contains profanity, Sorc still won't curse strongly unless it slips through his self-filtering. But he's more lax about leaving it uncensored in such cases. |
| 34 | ** The tendency is now to leave curses in but bleep them. This provides a sort of compromise between his view on "natural" swearing[[note]]Which is to say, swearing that happens as an immediate reflexive response to things, as contrasted with needless casual swearing. Sorc is firmly of the opinion that reflexive swearing in stressful situations has a sort of value, in that it is a legitimate indicator of his reactions during gameplay, and it therefore deserves to be kept in the video.[[/note]] and the fact that he doesn't really want to use strong curses in his [=LPs=]. |
| 35 | * MickeyMousing: A relatively subtle case is that Sorc tends to try and synchronise at least one thing with some part of the outro music in each of the "recent videos" clips. Also, more obviously and to be expected, using the music to inform video editing in montages. |
| 36 | * {{Montage}}: For the channel itself, the channel trailers, and the LP anniversary video. |
| 37 | * OutOfFocus: Sorc began [=LPing=] ''Minecraft'', and considered it his "flagship" series, but right from day five, when he started ''Sonic Adventure 2'' as a "side" LP, ''Minecraft'' generally shared equal output with the side LP. Eventually, due to the long ''Minecraft'' hiatus, Sorc finally demoted it to just being one of three equally weighted LP slots... and vanilla and modded share that slot. His channel update video about this explicitly stated that he no longer considers any of his [=LPs=] to be "side" ones. |
| 38 | * PaintingTheMedium: A common feature since getting Sony Vegas, beginning in the ''Alundra'' and ''Warped'' [=LPs=]. Sorc sure likes to play with his expanded editing tools. |
| 39 | * PerformanceAnxiety: Has bemoaned more than once that "this would happen on camera" or "I'm normally good at this". |
| 40 | * PunBasedTitle: Common for episode titles. Also, as noted at the top of the page, applicable to the entire "franchise", as it were, being under the "Nobody Plays" banner. |
| 41 | * ScheduleSlip: All over the place; indeed, it's fair to say that the schedule itself slips more than Sorc's adherence to it does. A lengthy history of the schedule is contained in this [[note]]On starting [=LPs=], there was initially no schedule, but Sorc aimed to get a video out every day. This lasted until the conclusion of ''Transistor'', at which point Sorc took a week's break from ''Minecraft'' and put out ''Surgeon Simulator'' every day for that week before starting a schedule of Mon/Fri ''Minecraft'' and Wed/Sun side LP. On the release of ''Minecraft'' 1.8, the ''Minecraft'' schedule was divided into modded on Monday and vanilla on Friday, and when Sorc resumed ''Surgeon Simulator'' for the DLC update, he split the side LP schedule into ''Surgeon Sim'' on Wednesday and keeping the ongoing ''Alundra'' on Sunday; he then kept the split side schedule when starting ''Crash Bandicoot Warped''. Almost immediately after that, he wrecked his base in vanilla, and began a hiatus from ''Minecraft'' that lasted throughout ''Warped'' and the remainder of ''Alundra''. Finally, with both side [=LPs=] conveniently and coincidentally ending in the same week, he changed the schedule ''again'' to MWF, three series rotation, with all three slots being given equal precedence rather than ''Minecraft'' being considered the "flagship", as it had been up to that point. Subsequently, in October 2016, Sorc finally dropped the idea of scheduled ''games'' entirely, meaning the three videos in any given week can be of any game whatsoever, although since ''Mirror's Edge'' was ongoing at the time of the change, it remained in its Wednesday slot until completion.[[/note]], for the curious. As of January 2019 or so, there is no longer any concept whatsoever of a schedule on the channel. |
| 42 | * ScoreScreen: Many of his non-''Minecraft'' [=LPs=] have one. [[ArtEvolution They've become increasingly elaborate]] with each new iteration, going from just death counts in ''Sonic Adventure 2'', to tracking about a dozen things and downright showing off with the presentation of the list in ''Alundra 2''. |
| 43 | * SigningOffCatchPhrase: |
| 44 | --> That's going to be it for this episode; if you've enjoyed the video, remember to leave a like. Share, favourite and comment to help support the channel; follow me on Twitter to stay up to date with what's going on; and subscribe if you want to see more. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you next time! |
| 45 | ** Sometimes falls apart completely, if Sorc stumbles over the words, or more commonly, if he starts to sign off and then gets distracted by something that prolongs the episode. The latter case usually results in him subsequently signing out with something along the lines of: |
| 46 | ---> Okay, that actually is going to be it for this episode, remember to leave a like, blah, blah, I've already done the spiel, see you next time! |
| 47 | * ThemeTune: |
| 48 | ** For the channel as a whole, Kevin [=MacLeod=]'s "Shiny Tech", used for channel trailers and video outros. |
| 49 | ** Series that have unique intro sequences each have their own music for said sequences. |
| 50 | * TitleDrop: Many episodes have their title dropped in commentary, though more often than not it's of the non-premeditated variety, with many episodes being named during editing by Sorc just picking a phrase from his commentary that he thinks will be a mildly amusing title. |
| 51 | * TitleSequence: Previously, ''every'' scheduled LP had a unique intro for the series, and non-scheduled series usually had the series logo (or at least the game logo) splash on at the start of every episode, or at least on the first episode. As of September 2016, vanilla ''Minecraft'' retains its existing title sequence, and the occasional new series will have one, but generally speaking, the practice has been dropped. |
| 52 | * UnusualChapterNumbers: For games that include Roman numerals in their titles (primarily ''Final Fantasy'' games), the same numbered episode or part of that series will use those Roman numerals in its numbering for the video title, in place of the Arabic numerals used to number all the other videos. |
| 53 | |
| 54 | [[/folder]] |
| 55 | |
| 56 | !LP series |
| 57 | !!Currently untroped entries |
| 58 | * ''7 Billion Humans'' |
| 59 | * ''VideoGame/{{Antichamber}}'' |
| 60 | * ''VideoGame/ARKSurvivalEvolved'' |
| 61 | * ''VideoGame/BeatSaber'' |
| 62 | * ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite'' |
| 63 | * ''VideoGame/{{Braid}}'' |
| 64 | * ''The Climb'' |
| 65 | * ''VideoGame/TheConsumingShadow'' |
| 66 | * ''VideoGame/DLCQuest'' |
| 67 | * Various ''Minecraft'' series |
| 68 | ** Guardcraft |
| 69 | ** [=SkyFactory=] 3 |
| 70 | ** Zombiecraft |
| 71 | * ''VideoGame/{{Infinifactory}}'' |
| 72 | * ''VideoGame/Inside2016'' |
| 73 | * ''VideoGame/JobSimulator'' |
| 74 | * ''VideoGame/{{LIMBO}}'' |
| 75 | * ''VideoGame/MarioKart8Deluxe'' |
| 76 | * ''VideoGame/MrShifty'' |
| 77 | * ''VideoGame/NoMansSky'' |
| 78 | * ''VideoGame/OxygenNotIncluded'' |
| 79 | * ''Refunct'' |
| 80 | * ''VideoGame/RockOfAges'' |
| 81 | * ''Sairento VR'' |
| 82 | * ''VideoGame/{{Thumper}}'' |
| 83 | * ''To The Top'' |
| 84 | * ''VideoGame/TheWitness'' |
| 85 | * ''VideoGame/WorldOfGoo'' |
| 86 | |
| 87 | !!Troped entries |
| 88 | [[folder:7 Days to Die]] |
| 89 | ->''I'm sure I can handle a few zombies...'' |
| 90 | -->-- Description on the series playlist. |
| 91 | |
| 92 | This series was started intentionally so that its first episode was Sorc's 200th LP episode overall. It was the first LP series to be off-schedule from its inception. |
| 93 | |
| 94 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 95 | * TheTeaser: Episode 2 features one. |
| 96 | |
| 97 | [[/folder]] |
| 98 | [[folder:Alundra]] |
| 99 | ->''Giving an underappreciated game some much-deserved exposure.'' |
| 100 | -->-- Description on the series playlist. |
| 101 | |
| 102 | The fourth side LP, started after the initial conclusion of ''Surgeon Simulator 2013''. The main reason for choosing ''Alundra'' is that Sorc is [[{{Fanboy}} very fond of the game]] and wants to get it more exposure; relatedly, the fact that the game is not hugely widely known just makes the "Nobody Plays" label even punnier. |
| 103 | |
| 104 | The series is concluded, and consists of forty episodes, which made it Sorc's longest LP[[note]]In all three senses: total video duration, lifetime on the channel, and episode count.[[/note]] until vanilla ''Minecraft'' caught up, several months later.[[note]]five months for lifetime on the channel (excluding the four month hiatus), and nine months for both total duration and episode count.[[/note]] |
| 105 | |
| 106 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 107 | * AddedAlliterativeAppeal: "More follow-y fireballs for... fun times to happen" in episode 24. |
| 108 | * ArtisticLicensePhysics: [[PlayingwithaTrope Played with]], in the sense that Sorc comments on the successful application of real physics in the [[spoiler:Ronan boss fight]], then comments on how it doesn't work. Also see Ignored Aesop, below. |
| 109 | * AttentionDeficitOohShiny: The title of episode 7, in reference to getting distracted from the plot by treasure hunting. |
| 110 | * BookEnds: In a meta sense. ''Alundra'' was the incumbent side LP when Sorc changed his schedule to four series per week, and its finale was also the very last LP episode of the same (by then broken) schedule. |
| 111 | * BlatantLies: Any mention of how unrelentingly cheery the game is. |
| 112 | * BroughtDownToNormal: The purpose of rematching the final bosses in the last episode – Sorc uses the ePSXe cheat plugin purely to deprive himself of the Legend Sword and Spirit Wand. [[spoiler:Although he still kills the very final boss ridiculously easily with magic even without the latter.]] |
| 113 | * BuffySpeak: A particularly good example in episode 31: |
| 114 | -->There we go, that's for the central elevator. [[UsefulNotes/BritishEnglish Lift]]. Risey uppy thing... [[ShoutOut Up-Goer]] [[Webcomic/{{xkcd}} Five]]. |
| 115 | * CallBack: |
| 116 | ** To the ''Sonic Adventure 2'' LP in episode 14 -- Sorc mentions "cannon lizard" while stating the varieties of lizardman present in the Reptile Lair. The callback is reinforced by a caption repeating the promotional offer. |
| 117 | ** In episode 27, recites [[spoiler:the title of episode 1, in response to the flashback of the line that it was named for]]. |
| 118 | * CatchPhrase: "Whatever" and "Nobody cares", whenever he takes repeated inconsequential damage from enemies or hazards, particularly at times when he just cares about crossing the room. |
| 119 | * DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: The opening to episode 28. |
| 120 | -->And welcome back, to you, and to you, and to you and to you. We are all here in Elene's subconscious with her multiple personalities, her multiple personalities, her multiple personalities, and [[LampshadeHanging an ongoing gag that's getting a bit tired]]. |
| 121 | * FunWithHomophones: Episode 28 is titled "Suite dreams". [[PungeonMaster Sorc declares this the best punny title for anything ever in the video description.]] |
| 122 | * GlassesPull: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] heavily in episode 33, in response to a pun in the narrative text after [[spoiler:defeating Wilda]]. How heavily? An actual image of Alundra wearing shades, and the appropriate sound clip. |
| 123 | * GrammarNazi: Calls out the occasional errors in dialogue. Episode 26 in particular features him repeatedly berating [[ExpositionFairy Stenia]] for being inconsistent about the plural of "Gazeck". |
| 124 | ** While the localisation of the game to Commonwealth spellings is generally good, there are a few missed ones. This usually goes unremarked upon, but a particularly JustForFun/{{egregious}} case in episode 35, where "realize" and "realise" are used in ''consecutive sentences of dialogue'', prompts a highlight of the two words and the caption, "WTH, localisation team?" |
| 125 | * GratuitousLatin: Episode 1, "Ego percussi gladio hodie". |
| 126 | * IgnoredAesop: Points out in episode 35 that attempting to apply real physics to the game is stupid. Then points out that this will not stop him doing it, and indeed never has before. |
| 127 | -->Naturally, I am going to completely ignore this lesson, just as I have done on countless previous occasions in my gaming career. |
| 128 | * IncrediblyLamePun: Several of the episode titles are puns. Mostly getting worse as the series progresses. Some select examples: |
| 129 | ** Episode 28, "Suite dreams", is homophonous for "sweet dreams" while also alluding to [[spoiler:the "suite" of nightmares provided by Elene's multiple personality]]. |
| 130 | ** Episode 29, "A wittier episode title wood be nice", intentionally [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] how bad its own pun is. |
| 131 | ** Episode 31, "More fun than arboreal monkeys!", doubles as a [[invoked]][[GeniusBonus genius bonus]]. |
| 132 | ** Episode 33, "Don't you hate it when boss fights drag on?", featuring a large fire-breathing reptile boss. |
| 133 | * LargeHamAnnouncer: In episode 31, as mentioned under Shout Out below. |
| 134 | * MoodWhiplash: The title of episode 20, contrasting the minigame timelapse at the start with [[spoiler:Sybill's murder]] at the end. |
| 135 | * OverlyLongGag: The introduction to episode 28, as quoted under Department of Redundancy Department. |
| 136 | * PaintingTheMedium: Episodes created after Sorc started using Sony Vegas have fast-forward style effects on timelapsed sections. |
| 137 | ** The title of episode 34, which focuses on a mirror/inversion based dungeon, is "Nobody Plays Alundra Ep. 34: :μƸ .qƎ ɒɿbnυlA ƨγɒlԳ γbodoИ". Sorc considered also flipping the video thumbnail, but decided not to. |
| 138 | ** In the final episode, Sorc defeats the final bosses... then rewinds the game all the way back to before the fights for a rematch. |
| 139 | * PerverseSexualLust: Sorc explicitly (and unsarcastically) calls Meia hot at least once. |
| 140 | ** He also originally remarked "I'd tap that" during the ending movie, but decided to cut it. |
| 141 | * [[spoiler:{{Retirony}} ]]: Invoked at the start of episode 27. Sorc would have mentioned it directly following the relevant remark in episode 21, were it not for the fact that it would have been an obvious spoiler to do so at the time. |
| 142 | * RuleOfThree: The last three episode titles, "Beginning of the end", "Middle of the end" and "End of the end". |
| 143 | * SaveScumming: Present due to the game being played on emulator. Sorc's attitude towards scumming to reset puzzles was reluctance to begin with, but he soon gave in on the basis of it being better for the LP to not have to detour around rooms to reset puzzles if he messes up. |
| 144 | ** In particular, he is utterly unapologetic about save scumming on the roulette minigame. Because screw having to legitimately score four sets of five consecutive wins on what is a LuckBasedMission. |
| 145 | * ScoreScreen: Tracks Life Vessels, Magic Seeds, Gilded Falcons, Plot Coupons, Excess Herbs, characters who have died, and [[{{Catchphrase}} the number of times Jess says "You know what I am saying?"]] Regret has been expressed at it being too late to start counting how many times Alundra gets referred to as an elf, including a comment in episode 30 that a verbal instance of such (made by Sorc) would have been counted. |
| 146 | * ShoutOut: |
| 147 | ** "[[VideoGame/CrashTwinsanity I'm okay! The spikes broke my fall...]]" in episode 24. |
| 148 | ** Episode 26, "[[WesternAnimation/HelpImAFish Help! I'm a fish]]". The shoutout comes not just from the title, but also the video description: |
| 149 | -->Can a human breathe underwater? Of course not! But an elf with a magical green-tinted cape apparently can. |
| 150 | ** Episode 31 has Sorc saying "[[LargeHamAnnouncer ENTER THE MURGG ARENA]]", which is promptly turned into an intentional shoutout by following up with "THE MOST MONKEY-FILLED ARENA... [[Series/TopGear IN THE WORLD]]." |
| 151 | ** Also in episode 31, [[Webcomic/{{xkcd}} Up-Goer Five]]. |
| 152 | ** Episode 34's video description references [[RuleThirtyFour Rule 34]] (in its wording, not subject matter). |
| 153 | ** In episode 38, Sorc refers to the [[spoiler:time control machinery]] in the Lake Shrine as [[spoiler:"time rotors"]], and accordingly inserts the sound of [[spoiler:[[Series/DoctorWho the TARDIS]] when he restarts time]]. |
| 154 | * SpecialEditionTitle: The title sequence of [[spoiler:the final episode is actually not the title sequence at all, but gameplay done in imitation of the title sequence as a fakeout]]. |
| 155 | * TimeLapse: Speeds up many segments of wandering around (especially in later episodes), although any area that has not previously been explored will retain normal speed so as not to skip over anything. |
| 156 | ** Episode 20 opens with a timelapse[[note]]Though it could be technically argued to be a montage, as it does contain between-room cuts and comes out of high speed at specific points[[/note]] of completing the Riverside Pub minigames. |
| 157 | ** Episode 37 has a timelapse of the many deaths needed to earn the Legend Sword. |
| 158 | * TranquilFury: In saying "Don't you dare" to [[spoiler:Ronan when he begins to accuse Alundra for Jess's death]] in episode 27. |
| 159 | * WallOfText: |
| 160 | ** In episode 37, Sorc musing on whether his graphics driver updating has altered any colours in the video results in a caption about how he couldn't prove it even if it had happened, drawing a parallel with colour perception in general. The wall of text is PlayedForLaughs and then [[LampshadedTrope lampshaded]], with the text getting smaller on each line, before trailing off and abruptly jumping back to larger text to apologise for the derailment. Then going back to small text to say there's no prize for [[UnreadablyFastText having stopped the video to read it all]], but thanks anyway. |
| 161 | ** The finale features one that explicitly starts off by telling viewers to pause if they want to read it. |
| 162 | [[/folder]] |
| 163 | |
| 164 | [[folder:Alundra 2]] |
| 165 | ->''It's not as good as the original, but still underappreciated. Check it out!'' |
| 166 | -->-- Description on the series playlist. |
| 167 | |
| 168 | The inevitable follow-up to ''Alundra''. This LP occupied the Friday slot. |
| 169 | |
| 170 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 171 | * AntiHumor: The title of episode 28 is a CallBack to that of ''Alundra'' episode 33... except that, [[DontExplainTheJoke as the video description points out]], the "pun" makes absolutely no sense this time around. |
| 172 | * CallBack: To the ''Alundra'' LP by tracking plot coupons and excess herbs. Also, generally, by highlighting points of similarity with the original game, most of which Sorc believes to be intentional on the part of the developers. |
| 173 | ** "More follow-y fireballs for fun times to happen." is recited verbatim in episode 7, followed by a FlashbackCut to the ''Alundra'' episode it came from. And is also recited again at pretty much any suitable opportunity in later episodes. |
| 174 | * DeadpanSnarker: In episode 3, after having berated Flint for a range of things that weren't his fault, Alexia then picks on Prunewell for "resting". Sorc's response? |
| 175 | -->''[caption]'' Alexia is an equal opportunities brutal taskmistress. |
| 176 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Episode 1 has no Score Screen, and has audio issues where dialogue cuts out in cutscenes. Both episodes 1 and 2 have technical issues with the emulator that affect the screen scaling between gameplay, the pause menu, and cutscenes. Both issues are fixed as of episode 3. |
| 177 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: Knowing the plot of the game allows Sorc to do things like [[spoiler:specifically point out that the Varuna royal emblem is a duck]], with the intention of later combining this with [[spoiler:naming the music track that plays when we see the mysterious trio of ducks]], all to deliberately hint towards the reveal that [[spoiler:those ducks are the Children of the Crown's submarine periscope]]. |
| 178 | * HypocriticalHumour: |
| 179 | ** "We should just ban all video games." |
| 180 | ** In episode 7, Sorc tells an enemy that their aim is terrible... then shortly afterwards, completely misses with an attack himself, and notes that his own aim is terrible. |
| 181 | * InformedAttractiveness: Alexia. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Sorc in episode 3: |
| 182 | -->If she weren't made of dubious polygons, she'd probably be quite hot. |
| 183 | * LegFocus: Sorc constantly mentions Alexia's legs, to the point that he's added it to the drinking game rules. |
| 184 | ** PlayedForLaughs in episode 9, where Sorc cites the length of Axelya's legs as one of the main pieces of evidence that she's Alexia in [[PaperThinDisguise disguise]]. |
| 185 | * NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: |
| 186 | ** In episode 1, after visiting a bathroom. |
| 187 | --->Honestly, it's ridiculous, but that actually is important. |
| 188 | ** In episode 9, Sorc reveals the title of Axelya's song: "Who Changed Me Into a Jellyfish Like This?" |
| 189 | * NotSoInnocentWhistle: In episode 2, after breaking the villager child's piggy bank. |
| 190 | * PaperThinDisguise: Invoked word for word in episode 9, both for Flint and Alexia. Sorc particularly lampshades the fact that Alexia's disguise involves her wearing ''less clothes than usual''. |
| 191 | * PerverseSexualLust: Implied towards Alexia. Though it's somewhat PlayedForLaughs, as indicated by InformedAttractiveness, above. |
| 192 | ** However, as the episodes progress, it becomes more and more dubious quite how much of it is just for laughs. Especially in episode 9. |
| 193 | * PokeThePoodle: Mephisto is [[BigBad most definitely not a poodle poker in general]], but there is one thing that does stand out: his [[SarcasmMode utterly diabolical]] seal on Jeehan's dojo: |
| 194 | -->[[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe Really?]] That's Mephisto's dark entrapment magic? Jigsaw puzzles? |
| 195 | * PottyEmergency: Sorc essentially posits this as a theory to explain why Jeehan is making his apprentice write an essay about ''toilets'', of all things. |
| 196 | -->Probably because there isn't one in here, and he's kinda preoccupied with them. [[{{Squick}} Unless that thing he's sitting on is one]]. |
| 197 | * [[PrecisionFStrike Precision S Strike]]: Narrowly [[AvertedTrope averted]] in episode 7. |
| 198 | -->You little s- I almost swore. You little... beast. |
| 199 | ** [[CallBack Called back to]] in episode 22. |
| 200 | * RunningGag: Mephisto is green, weird, and [[BlatantLies definitely not]] [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial the main villain]]. |
| 201 | ** Sorc doesn't know what Deadeye Zach is, exactly, but notes that while Zach is green, he's not that weird, and ''definitely'' not the main villain, because that would be stupid. |
| 202 | * SarcasmMode: The title and description of episode 9. |
| 203 | * ScoreScreen: Tracks Puzzle Pieces, Life Crests, Elemental Orbs, excess herbs, the current item in the trading quest, the materials needed for the Valar Shield, the upgrade levels of Flint's sword, shield and elemental rings, the Gauntlet and Combo Lv, and plot coupons. But unlike ''Alundra'''s, it's not a plain text list -- instead, it has icons of every item in question. |
| 204 | * ShoutOut: |
| 205 | ** A pirate uttering "He he he" in episode 9 results in a brief watermark of [[Webcomic/SweetBroandHellaJeff Hella Jeff]]. Episode 11 [[WhatCouldHaveBeen was actually meant to]] [[CallBack call back]] to this, as Sorc put faint text saying "[=SBaHJ.jpg wayermark=]" on another "He he he he" instance. Unfortunately, it turns out he made it ''too'' faint, meaning that compression during rendering caused it to become pretty much completely indiscernible in the final video.[[note]]It ''is'' still there, as you can see it by maxing the brightness and contrast of a screencap. It just might as well not be.[[/note]] |
| 206 | ** The term "gold badger", also in episode 9, naturally prompts mention of [[Literature/HarryPotter Hufflepuff]]. Although Sorc then points out that he himself is actually a Ravenclaw. |
| 207 | ** "[[Franchise/KingdomHearts Why do I always get the icky jobs?]]" in episode 22. |
| 208 | * [[invoked]]{{Squick}}: Toilets in Toroledo are just holes in the ground, which in itself isn't that bad. Until Sorc points out... |
| 209 | -->Also, it's not in the ground, 'cause it was on the upper floor, so how does tha- ewwwwwwwwww. |
| 210 | * DevelopersForesight: Discussed in episode 9, when Sorc wonders about the hypothetical scenario of not being able to afford a plot-advancing inn stay, and then remembers that there's a piggy bank in the back room of the item shop, most likely precisely because of that scenario. |
| 211 | * WelcomeToCorneria: Indirectly discussed in episode 10. |
| 212 | -->And these two are probably like why's this guy running backwards and forwards and why does he look so much like Flint and why are we not doing anything about it... Except they're [=NPCs=]; they don't have thought processes. |
| 213 | |
| 214 | [[/folder]] |
| 215 | [[folder:Bastion]] |
| 216 | ->''Let the delicious narrative voice wash over you.'' |
| 217 | -->-- Description on the series playlist. |
| 218 | |
| 219 | Sort of a sequel/prequel/sidequel/callback series to ''Transistor'', really. This series consists of 22 episodes. |
| 220 | |
| 221 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 222 | * AprilFoolsDay: Episode 20 starts out with Sorc playing ''Transistor'' but still acting like he's playing ''Bastion''. |
| 223 | * CallBack: |
| 224 | ** The thumbnail for the first episode of New Game Plus is identical to that of the first episode, other than the episode number. |
| 225 | ** Because episode 16 features the cameo of turrets from ''Portal'', the ''Portal'' LP's score screen makes an appearance. |
| 226 | ** A remark in episode 17 about trying to explain game mechanics logically is an oblique callback to similar remarks in ''Alundra'' episode 35. |
| 227 | * PaintingTheMedium: Episode 20 reverts to ''Bastion'' via a ton of video effects and a test card screen. |
| 228 | * ScoreScreen: Doesn't normally have one, but the "Turrets neutralised" one from the ''Portal'' LP makes a cameo appearance in episode 16. |
| 229 | * TheTeaser: Episodes 2, 6, and 17 feature episode highlight clips before the intro. |
| 230 | |
| 231 | [[/folder]] |
| 232 | [[folder:Candleman]] |
| 233 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 234 | * HellIsThatNoise: Chapter 8 features creepy whispering, which Sorc incorporated into the episode 5 outro. |
| 235 | * MoodWhiplash: Deliberately upbeat and silly music is used for a timelapse in the middle of a creepy game segment in episode 5. |
| 236 | * OminousVisualGlitch: The outro to episode 5 glitches out and cuts to a mostly black screen accompanied by the creepy whispering heard during gameplay. |
| 237 | * TimeLapse: Episode 5 has a sped up section of Sorc giving ghost candles the runaraound while slowly moving a platform into position. |
| 238 | |
| 239 | [[/folder]] |
| 240 | [[folder:Captive Minecraft]] |
| 241 | ->''im trapped in an achievement factory please send help'' |
| 242 | -->-- Description on the series playlist. |
| 243 | |
| 244 | When problems emerged with playing the Modsauce pack, Sorc was unable to record a second episode in time for the designated slot. [=TheFarlanders'=] ''Captive Minecraft'' challenge map was used as a gap filler, lasting for as many weeks as necessary until Modsauce started working. Which turned out to be one week. As such, the series has only one episode; however, Sorc does plan to probably bring it back sometime in the future, along with Captive Minecrafts II and III. |
| 245 | |
| 246 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 247 | * AbortedArc: Never got past episode 1. |
| 248 | * {{Filler}}: The series was intended to temporarily cover Modsauce's schedule slot. |
| 249 | |
| 250 | [[/folder]] |
| 251 | [[folder:Captive Minecraft IV]] |
| 252 | ->''My only achievements in life.'' |
| 253 | -->-- Description on the series playlist. |
| 254 | |
| 255 | Following the release of ''Captive Minecraft IV'', and with some lingering disappointment at how his original ''Captive Minecraft'' series went, Sorc decided to play the new map, making it his Wednesday slot series. |
| 256 | |
| 257 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 258 | * {{Montage}}: The construction of the iron farm in episode 9. |
| 259 | * SelfDeprecation: PlayedForLaughs by the playlist description, as quoted above. |
| 260 | |
| 261 | [[/folder]] |
| 262 | [[folder:[=ClusterTruck=]]] |
| 263 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 264 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After the umpteenth failed attempt at the final boss in episode 7, Sorc stages a RageQuit. |
| 265 | -->"Are you ser... ah... jh... no... no. No. That's it. Nope." |
| 266 | -->''[voice getting fainter]'' "That's it. Had enough. Nope. Done." |
| 267 | -->''[door opens]'' |
| 268 | -->''[door slams, video cuts to black]'' |
| 269 | -->''[{{Beat}}]'' |
| 270 | -->Caption: [[PrecisionFStrike TRUCK]] [[{{Bowdlerize}} THIS]] [[{{Pun}} SHIP]] |
| 271 | -->Cue outro |
| 272 | |
| 273 | [[/folder]] |
| 274 | [[folder:Crash Bandicoot 2]] |
| 275 | Long intended since the ''Warped'' series. A Friday slot LP. |
| 276 | |
| 277 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 278 | * ContinuityNod: Episode 7 contains the N. Gin boss fight that ''Warped'' episode 5 had an [[BeyondTheImpossible inexplicable]] flash cut to. So, naturally, the fight ends with a flash cut of that episode. [[MindScrew Including the entire flash cut to this game from that episode.]] |
| 279 | |
| 280 | [[/folder]] |
| 281 | [[folder:Crash Bandicoot Warped]] |
| 282 | ->''Unquestionably the best game in the "time-travelling platforming marsupials" genre.'' |
| 283 | -->-- Description on the series playlist. |
| 284 | |
| 285 | After concluding ''Surgeon Simulator 2013'' for the second time, Sorc had chosen the next game to be a side LP. Not wanting to stop ''Alundra'', nor wait until it ended, Sorc decided to keep the Wednesday slot as being a different series to the Sunday slot, formally making his schedule a four-series rota... although that rota broke down almost immediately after the ''Warped'' LP began, due to the ''Minecraft'' hiatus. Go figure. |
| 286 | |
| 287 | The series is concluded, and consists of fifteen episodes. |
| 288 | |
| 289 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 290 | * [[OneHundredPercentCompletion 105% Completion]]: The first time Sorc has ever achieved it, in fact. |
| 291 | * ArtEvolution: Due to being an active series during the changes, the improvements to video quality are quite apparent in this LP. Episodes up to 12 have frame resampling, meaning motion in particular is not very crisp. Episode 13 does away with that, as well as upgrading to 60fps. Episode 14 marks the further advancement from 720p to 1080p resolution. |
| 292 | * FailureMontage: The end of episode 8, which is condensed down to a montage due to its sheer length as Sorc dies a total of eighteen times in a span of two and a half minutes.[[note]]That's the edited time; it was about eight and a quarter minutes real time.[[/note]] Also a major feature of the final two episodes, since they are focused entirely on attempting to get Gold or Platinum Relics from time trials. |
| 293 | * [[invoked]]GeniusBonus: Episode 8's title for those who know anything about gemstones, and episode 13's, for anyone who knows the name of the shape time trial relics take. |
| 294 | * [[PowerEchoes High Resolution Echoes]]: Opens episode 14 by announcing the upgrade to recording in '''''ten-eighteeee peeeeeee'''''. |
| 295 | * IncrediblyLamePun: The title of episode 13. Also doubles (triples?) as both a shoutout and a bit of a genius bonus. |
| 296 | * MoreDakka: While it could be argued that he doesn't use it enough (i.e. literally every possible opportunity) to qualify for this trope, Sorc certainly uses the bazooka rather more than is strictly necessary. |
| 297 | ** Explicitly invoked in the commentary for episodes 7 and 8. |
| 298 | * OverlyNarrowSuperlative: The playlist description. |
| 299 | * PaintingTheMedium: After defeating N. Tropy at the end of episode 3, and being told by the antagonists that it would make the Time Twister unstable, Sorc opens episode 4 by [[BlatantLies dismissing this warning]]. The episode naturally goes on to contain a few [[FlashbackCut brief segments from previous episodes]]. |
| 300 | ** The phenomenon goes up to eleven in episode 5, containing two cuts from within the episode (one of which gets played back in reverse), one from the previous episode, and one from ''[[VideoGame/CrashBandicoot2CortexStrikesBack Crash Bandicoot 2]]'', which ''[[BeyondTheImpossible Sorc hadn't even LP'd at the time]]''. |
| 301 | *** It would not, in fact, be LP'd until about a year and a half later, with the part of the game in question being covered in an episode that came out more than 600 days after this one. [[ContinuityNod Which then directly references this event.]] |
| 302 | ** An audio desynch in episode 8, caused by a lag spike, would have been easy to just outright fix as if it had never even been there. But Sorc decided to leave it in and play around with the snap back to aligned sound instead. |
| 303 | ** Episode 9 throws a few new effects into the mix, including a reversed lift journey (but with the footage mirrored so it's still going upwards on the screen), a temporary broken record effect that capitalises on existing repetition to make it less immediately obvious, and, best of all, a double psycheout by inserting a clip ''of an instance of an inserted clip'' from an earlier episode. And then there's also an inserted clip of Sorc ''not'' dying at one point, just for a change. |
| 304 | ** Episode 10 has a clip ''from episode 11'' in it, and also messes around with a few fun things like making the time trial clock (and ''only'' the clock!) run backwards for one segment. |
| 305 | ** Episode 11 brings in the fast-forward effect first seen in the ''Alundra'' LP. |
| 306 | ** From episode 12 onwards, there are no clips inserted, but the episodes do have a huge amount of cutting and fast-forwarding. Episodes 13 and 14 do have slow-motion bits, though. |
| 307 | * {{Portmanteau}}: "Terriballs" in episode 2. |
| 308 | * PrecisionFStrike: One occurred in the finale, and Sorc actually [[WhatCouldHaveBeen intended to leave it in]] (albeit [[SoundEffectBleep censor bleeped]]), purely as a simple but powerful indicator that he'd gotten frustrated enough to cause a lapse in his self-filtering. Unfortunately, he accidentally edited it out, and couldn't be bothered to trawl through the raw recording to find it and put it back in. |
| 309 | * RuleOfThree: Three consecutive deaths almost at the end of episode 7. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]], of course. |
| 310 | -->'''After the third death:''' ''[{{beat}}]'' "Hat trick!" |
| 311 | * RunningGag: The clip of shooting a chicken with the bazooka gets reused every few episodes. |
| 312 | * SaveScumming: Averted. Emulator save states are used only as a general precaution at the end of each recording session. Everything else relies on a legitimate save file on the virtual memory card. |
| 313 | * ShoutOut: |
| 314 | ** Episode 5 (Immortal N. Gin), episode 9 (Gold predator), episode 11 (A sparkling plane) and episode 12 (Infernal entices) each reference one of the books in the ''Literature/MortalEngines'' quartet. Sorc even considered using "Infernal entices" for episode 10 instead of 12 so that all four would also be in order, but eventually decided against it. |
| 315 | *** In fact, episode 5's title is also a synonym of "EternalEngine", which in turn indirectly alludes to the ''Sonic Adventure 2'' LP. However, this added shoutout [[AccidentalPun was not intentional at the time]]. |
| 316 | ** Episode 6, "[[Series/{{Fringe}} Cortexy fun]]". |
| 317 | ** Episode 7's video description refers to the coloured gems as [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII materia]], since both come in the same five colours (red, yellow, green, blue and purple). The fact that episode [[NumerologicalMotif number 7]] happens to be the one to which such a joke is applicable is [[AccidentalPun an unintended bonus]]. |
| 318 | ** In episode 9, Sorc remarks on the episode title with "[[Webcomic/SweetBroandHellaJeff i am the predator. its me]]". |
| 319 | ** Episode 13's title is [[Literature/SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish pretty blatant]]. |
| 320 | ** Episode 14's title references [[WebVideo/BirgirPall BirgirPall]]'s ''Surgeon Sim'' video (and the ''Surgeon Sim'' achievement named for it). |
| 321 | * StealthPun: |
| 322 | ** Time-based ones in the description of episode 3, since it's the episode in which N. Tropy is fought. |
| 323 | ** The title of episode 8, "Brilliant cuts", is explained by the description as referring to editing cuts in the video. But the ''real'' meaning of the title is that [[invoked]][[GeniusBonus it refers to the gemstone cut of the same name]]. |
| 324 | * SpecialEditionTitle: Episode 1 lacks the series title sequence, as it instead shows the entire startup sequence of the game. |
| 325 | * [[invoked]]SpoiledByTheFormat: A minor case with time trial attempt montages. Failed runs are generally just a few seconds of footage leading up to a death or other error, but Sorc chose to include the successful runs in their entirety. As a result, when you see a run start from the beginning of the level and last more than about ten seconds without something going wrong, you can be pretty sure it's the successful one. |
| 326 | * TheStinger: The running gag clip (see above) makes appearances at the end of episodes 5 and 15. |
| 327 | * [[invoked]]TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Essentially his view on post-''Warped'' Crash games, with the line most strongly drawn in the vicinity of ''Twinsanity''.[[note]]''Twinsanity'' isn't exactly a safe distance from the line, but is within. ''Tag Team Racing'' teeters right on the line, as he finds it enjoyable enough, but is not remotely impressed by the painfully [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderised]] characters. Especially Coco, whose transformation from EndearinglyDorky to annoying ValleyGirl really grinds Sorc's gears.[[/note]] He is, however, gracious enough to say that modern Crash isn't bad ''per se'', just that it's not a remotely adequate reflection on the legacy of Naughty Dog Crash. |
| 328 | |
| 329 | [[/folder]] |
| 330 | [[folder:Crypt of the [=NecroDancer=]]] |
| 331 | ->''Beating a dead corpse. To the beat.'' |
| 332 | -->-- Description on the series playlist. |
| 333 | |
| 334 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 335 | * AbortedArc: Decided after a few episodes that, although the game was fun, it wasn't really working as an LP series. |
| 336 | * InitialismTitle: Episode 2 is titled TTATOSNTTGTASD, which is an initialism of a line spoken in the episode: [[spoiler:The Trials And Tribulations Of Sorceror Nobody Trying To Get Through A Simple Dungeon]]. |
| 337 | * MickeyMousing: Out of the multiple ways Sorc mocks himself with his editing in episode 2 (see Self-Deprecation below), two are synchronised to the beat. |
| 338 | * SelfDeprecation: Sorc's editing of episode 2 is merciless in calling himself out for failing to realise for several minutes that he can just turn off an inconvenient item effect. |
| 339 | |
| 340 | [[/folder]] |
| 341 | [[folder:Cuphead]] |
| 342 | ->''This game is the Cuphead of platformers.'' |
| 343 | -->-- Description on the series playlist. |
| 344 | |
| 345 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 346 | * ShapedLikeItself: The playlist description invokes this, in reference to the fact that Cuphead is a prominent example of the [[Memes/DarkSouls "Dark Souls of X" meme]]. |
| 347 | |
| 348 | [[/folder]] |
| 349 | [[folder:Detached]] |
| 350 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 351 | * AbortedArc: So far stands incomplete as of episode 7, because hunting for tiny objects floating out in the open wastes of space gets old pretty fast, especially after having already tried and failed over the span of a whole episode. Which is a shame, because aside from that, Sorc loves the game and thinks it's a phenomenal experience. |
| 352 | * PaintingTheMedium: The reactor sequence in episode 6. CUE DRAMATIC VISUAL EFFECTS AND MUSIC! |
| 353 | |
| 354 | [[/folder]] |
| 355 | [[folder:[=Element4l=]]] |
| 356 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 357 | * FailureMontage: In later episodes, especially the final one, as some of the manoeuvres get really tricky to chain together. |
| 358 | |
| 359 | [[/folder]] |
| 360 | [[folder:Final Fantasy III]] |
| 361 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 362 | * RunningGag: Ingus is an aloof git. And Refia is a ''betch''. |
| 363 | * UnusualChapterNumbers: The video thumbnails use Roman numerals for the episode numbering, and episode 3 has "III" instead of "3" in the title. |
| 364 | |
| 365 | [[/folder]] |
| 366 | [[folder:FTB Infinity]] |
| 367 | ->''Feeding the beast, infinitely.'' |
| 368 | -->-- Description on the series playlist. |
| 369 | |
| 370 | The ''technically'' current modded ''Minecraft'' series, which began on April 13th, 2015. It lasted for six episodes before losing steam and also falling foul of an upsurge in vanilla due to joining the [=Sl1pg8r=] Patreon server, at which point it ceased for almost a year. It was then resumed as of February 22, 2016, but it's pretty much stopped again. |
| 371 | |
| 372 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 373 | * AuthorAppeal: While FTB Infinity is a public modpack rather than a custom one, Sorc tweaked it by adding a few mods that he really wanted to have. |
| 374 | * CallBack: The title of the seventh episode to the title of the first. |
| 375 | * GratuitousGreek: Sure, episode 5 ''could'' just have been called "Mooshroom spawner"... but where's the fun in that when you can have "Automycobovogenesis" instead? Granted, "bov-" is a Latin root, but still. |
| 376 | * OrphanedSeries: Basically left hanging after Sorc joined the [=Sl1pg8r=] Patreon server and thus dedicated all of his time to vanilla. |
| 377 | ** However, has since been {{Uncancelled}}. |
| 378 | ** And then not ''officially'' re-cancelled, but has stopped again. |
| 379 | ** The playlist description previously acknowledged the halting of the series, observing that it was ironically short for something called "Infinity". |
| 380 | * ShoutOut: |
| 381 | ** To ''Franchise/ToyStory'', obviously, with the first episode being titled "To infinity...". The seventh episode, which is the first to be in Infinity Evolved, completes this by being titled "...and beyond!" |
| 382 | ** Since the series began on the same day as [=A6A6A5=] of ''Homestuck'', Sorc initially used "ACT 6 ACT 6 ACT 5" as the seed. But that was a terrible seed, so he then went with "Caliborn". |
| 383 | * TheTeaser: Episode 5 opens with musings on a hat. |
| 384 | |
| 385 | [[/folder]] |
| 386 | [[folder:Goat Simulator]] |
| 387 | ->''Goat is love, goat is life.'' |
| 388 | -->-- Description on the series playlist. |
| 389 | |
| 390 | ''Goat Simulator'' covered the Monday slot until ''Minecraft'' was resumed, after which it became an off-schedule series. |
| 391 | |
| 392 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 393 | * AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Pretty much the way the LP operates, given the lack of specific end goals, but there are some particularly notable moments, such as the opening of episode 2. |
| 394 | -->I thought I'd give Goat... Thingy... Bay... whatev- ooh, helicopter. Ohhh, ''helicopter!'' ...ooh, hello." |
| 395 | * BlatantLies: "Why is there glass everywhere? I have nothing to do with this." |
| 396 | * FunnyBackgroundEvent: The "chat" in Goat MMO Simulator. |
| 397 | * MisplacedADecimalPoint: Done deliberately in episode 3. After suggesting a "5000 hours later..." cut, Sorc proceeds to cut to five thousand''ths'' of an hour later. Which is eighteen seconds. |
| 398 | ** May also count as a case of {{Malaproper}}, since the gag hinges on the similarity of the word. |
| 399 | * OutOfFocus: Sorc decides in the second episode that the solution to the dilemma of needing to bring ''Minecraft'' back sooner rather than later, but not wanting to stop ''Goat Simulator'' when it's only just out of the gate, is to relegate the latter to being a non-schedule series like Arbitrary ''Audiosurf''. |
| 400 | ** The tragic thing being that there then wasn't another ''Goat Simulator'' episode until Sorc started doing episodes for all of his off-schedule series to celebrate 123 subscribers, '''seven months later'''. |
| 401 | * [[PrecisionFStrike Precision S Strike]]: In episode 3. Sorc decides to leave it uncensored since he was just quoting the game anyway. |
| 402 | * TheTeaser: Episode 4 has "[[ItMakesSenseInContext Blllblllrrrlbrlbrllrlllrrlblrllrlrllblrl]]" |
| 403 | |
| 404 | [[/folder]] |
| 405 | [[folder:Hiveswap]] |
| 406 | |
| 407 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 408 | * EasterEgg: One that isn't even in the videos themselves, which you would really have to actively go looking for to have a hope of noticing: [[spoiler:the episode numbering in the thumbnails is font size [[ArcNumber 413]]]]. |
| 409 | * ShoutOut: Obviously, discusses and references ''Homestuck'' near-constantly. |
| 410 | |
| 411 | [[/folder]] |
| 412 | [[folder:Home Improvisation: Furniture Sandbox]] |
| 413 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 414 | * WhatWereYouThinking: Aimed at the developers, as the VR view is not shared to the screen, which just displays the player's avatar in the normal non-VR view of the game. Which is much less interesting to look at. Sorc is understandably perplexed by this design choice. |
| 415 | |
| 416 | [[/folder]] |
| 417 | [[folder:I am Bread]] |
| 418 | Sorceror Nobody gets in touch with his edible side. A Friday slot LP. Concluded with 10 episodes as Sorc felt the series had run its course. |
| 419 | |
| 420 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 421 | * OddNameOut: The entire series, by being titled "Nobody is Bread" rather than "Nobody Plays I am Bread". |
| 422 | * ThatCameOutWrong: In episode 9. |
| 423 | -->*executes maneouvre* "Nice." |
| 424 | -->*promptly falls onto the floor* "Balls." |
| 425 | -->"...that was not a composite statement." |
| 426 | |
| 427 | [[/folder]] |
| 428 | [[folder:Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes]] |
| 429 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 430 | * EpunymousTitle: The series is titled "Keep Talking and I Explode" because, well, he is "Nobody". |
| 431 | [[/folder]] |
| 432 | |
| 433 | [[folder:Little Nightmares]] |
| 434 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 435 | * MenDontCry: Defied ''hard'' in the final episode. Sorc audibly starts to get choked up when [[spoiler:the Kid is turned into a Nome]] and he realises exactly where the game is going to go with it, and he openly breaks down in tears at the end. |
| 436 | -->This is one of the most heartbreaking games I've ever played. |
| 437 | |
| 438 | [[/folder]] |
| 439 | [[folder:Minecraft]] |
| 440 | ->''Join Sorceror Nobody as he larks about in a 1.8 vanilla Minecraft survival world!'' |
| 441 | -->-- Description on the season 1 playlist. |
| 442 | |
| 443 | A vanilla ''Minecraft'' LP, which started upon the release of version 1.8 of the game. |
| 444 | |
| 445 | The series reached thirteen episodes, at which point Sorc accidentally destroyed half of his base and went on a total ''Minecraft'' hiatus. The series was finally resumed on April 6th, 2015. Furthermore, as of episode 19, Sorc joined what was, at the time, [=Sl1pg8r=]'s Patreon server, but is now just an independent fan server. |
| 446 | |
| 447 | Each subsequent season starts from a world reset on the server, generally due to the release of a new major ''Minecraft'' version: season 2 for 1.9, season 3 for 1.11, season 4 for 1.13, and season 5 for 1.16. |
| 448 | |
| 449 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 450 | * AddedAlliterativeAppeal: |
| 451 | ** [=S1E1=], "Surviving [=Sl1pg8r=]", is a debatable case, due to the reason it's titled as such. |
| 452 | ** [=S1E4=], "Nether navigation nuisance". |
| 453 | ** [=S1E5=], "Progress, project planning, and preparations". |
| 454 | * BorrowedCatchphrase: Opens the LP with an imitation of [=Sl1pg8r=]'s standard intro as part of the homage. |
| 455 | -->What is up the world? This is your friendly neighbourhood Sorceror here! |
| 456 | * BuffySpeak: The season 1 finale, "World go boom". |
| 457 | * CallBack: |
| 458 | ** The playlist description is, of course, based on that of the custom modpack series. |
| 459 | ** [=S1E13=]'s title, "Bad things", to [=S1E12=]'s, "Good things" |
| 460 | ** [=S1E21=]'s title, "A monumental undertaking", to [=S1E6=]'s, "A titanic undertaking". |
| 461 | ** [=S1E35=] starts with the opening of [=S1E1=] before cutting to new content. It also has a near-identical thumbnail. |
| 462 | ** The title of the first part of the season 1 finale, "Surprising [=Sl1pg8r=]", echoes that of the first episode, "Surviving [=Sl1pg8r=]". |
| 463 | * [[invoked]]CreatorBreakdown: Sorc initially intended to take a short break, and only for vanilla, to fix the damage done to his base. Turns out the incident hit harder than he thought, causing him to stop doing ''Minecraft'' entirely (including watching videos) for ''four months''.[[note]]Although the stopping watching videos was exacerbated somewhat by the fact that he was trudging through one of the Hermitcraft [=UHCs=] at the time, and those are already bottlenecks in his viewing because, although he likes watching them, he chooses to watch at least one perspective for each team, which makes it kind of a chore.[[/note]] |
| 464 | * [[invoked]]CreatorRecovery: Seeing that the hiatus was approaching four months, Sorc decided to push himself to resume the series pretty much dead on the four month mark. Slightly to his own surprise, it worked. |
| 465 | * DamnYouMuscleMemory: Generally thanks to Modsauce. The most common error is hitting R in an attempt to wield his sword, before remembering that he doesn't have Battlegear in vanilla and his sword is on his hotbar. Also occasionally tries to fly; thankfully, not usually while jumping off a cliff. |
| 466 | * FunnyBackgroundEvent: The in-game chat can be this, especially during first person timelapses. For example, in [=S2E10=]: |
| 467 | --> <tegsirat> hey cornerfire |
| 468 | --> <tegsirat> mind if i hit you with my sword until your head falls off? |
| 469 | --> <CORNERFIRE> go for it, sorry I am recording so if I don't respond that is why:P |
| 470 | --> CORNERFIRE was shot by tegsirat using ''[teg's might]'' |
| 471 | --> <tegsirat> thanks! |
| 472 | --> <tegsirat> :) |
| 473 | --> <Sorceror_Nobody> That was not a sword |
| 474 | --> <tegsirat> yeah, oops |
| 475 | * FunWithHomophones: [=S1E15=], "Which farm?", as explained under Incredibly Lame Pun, below. |
| 476 | * GratuitousLatin: The naming of tools and armour in season 3. Special mention to [[spoiler: the diamond hoe, Meretrix, the name of which intentionally refers to [[StealthPun the other kind of hoe]]]]. |
| 477 | * {{Homage}}: As stated above, started the series in imitation of [=Sl1pg8r=]'s standard intro, and used "[=Sl1pg8r=]" as the world seed.[[note]]In fact, the seed came first. While generating seeds to look for particular worldgen features, he whimsically chose to try "[=sl1pg8r=]", and then "[=Sl1pg8r=]", only to discover that the latter actually generated a world which met most of his desired criteria. The decision to make a full-scale homage in the first episode grew from that.[[/note]] The episode is titled "Surviving [=Sl1pg8r=]" both because the world itself can reasonably be named for its seed, and as a reference to Slip's original "Surviving Sliptopia" survival ''Minecraft'' LP series. |
| 478 | ** Sorc initially planned to open [=S1E19=] with the same intro due to moving onto [=Sl1pg8r=]'s Patreon server, but that was scrapped in favour of a narrative scenario for the transition. |
| 479 | * InterfaceScrew: Toggles off the head section of his ''{{VideoGame/Minecraft}}'' skin's second layer in [=S1E1=]. Since that part of the layer is his avatar's glasses, the video goes blurry until he toggles it back on. |
| 480 | ** The gag is reused in a later episode to avoid spoiling something another server member is working on. |
| 481 | * {{Montage}}: |
| 482 | ** A ridiculous ''two'' montages of building the Iron Titan in [=S1E6=]. |
| 483 | ** Partial excavation of the main base in [=S1E7=]. |
| 484 | ** Building the pigman xp farm in [=S1E10=]. |
| 485 | ** The restoration work in [=S1E14=]. |
| 486 | ** The witch farm build in [=S1E18=]. Sorc still considers this one of his best montages by far. |
| 487 | ** (More montages in Season 1...) |
| 488 | ** The [[spoiler:Sky Limit Amazeballs]] build in the "BEDROCK TO BALL LIMIT!" bonus video at the end of Season 1. |
| 489 | ** The blaze farm build in [=S2E2=]. |
| 490 | ** His base Nether hub in [=S2E10=]. |
| 491 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: |
| 492 | ** Managed to accidentally destroy about 90% of his base in the first part of Season 1, leading to the series hiatus. |
| 493 | ** Also accidentally broke the server by uploading a world onto the real server instead of the backup server during [=S2E11=]. This one ''didn't'' prompt a series hiatus, thankfully; the lack of server episodes for the subsequent two weeks was for unrelated reasons. |
| 494 | * TheReveal: Sorc spends some time in a couple of episodes near the end of Season 1 talking about a hole that he is digging down to bedrock. He deliberately does not let on where this hole is or what it's for. Until finally, right before the two-episode season finale was recorded, a special timelapse video revealed it to be located in the server's [[spoiler:Amazeballs Garden]], and that its purpose was [[spoiler:for him to build the Sky Limit Amazeballs in]]. |
| 495 | * {{Pun}}: |
| 496 | ** [=S1E11=], "Clerical errand". |
| 497 | ** The 'trigger' pigman for the xp farm is named "Crash Bandipig". This is both a terrible pun and a shoutout to both ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'' and farm inventor [=TheSnocrash=] (because the pigman is aggravated using snowballs). |
| 498 | ** [=S1E15=] is called "Which farm?" because he starts it by trying to build a witch farm, then moves to set up a dual witch farm in a different location, and finally ends up doing a slime farm first to get resources for the witch farm. |
| 499 | ** [=S1E20=] is called "Sponge 101" because Sorc gets 101 sponges from his ocean monument. |
| 500 | * RuleOfCool: ''Disco swamp''. That is all. |
| 501 | * [[invoked]]SeriesHiatus: |
| 502 | ** Four months, from 5/12/14 to 6/4/15. |
| 503 | ** Also a short five week break while building the Fortress for Slip's birthday; the Spectrum adventure map series took place at this time. |
| 504 | * ShoutOut: |
| 505 | ** His current ''{{VideoGame/Minecraft}}'' skin, which debuted in this LP,[[note]]Although it also appeared in the final episode of modded, due to vanilla starting slightly before modded ended[[/note]] is based on his ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}''-style avatar. |
| 506 | ** The term "[[VideoGame/HalfLife resentment cascade]]" in [=S1E11=]. |
| 507 | ** As noted under Incredibly Lame Pun, the name of the xp farm 'trigger' pigman is a double shoutout. |
| 508 | ** [=S1E16=] has two shoutouts. One is the title, obviously to ''ComicBook/SpiderMan''. The other is something he says while securing the cave spider spawner: |
| 509 | --->"Come closer... [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening as the spider said to the other spider]]. I wonder if any of you get that reference." |
| 510 | ** In [=S2E7=], Sorc lists what all of his named equipment items are references to, including Creator/MontyPython, ''{{VideoGame/Undertale}}'', ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening Fire Emblem Awakening]]'', ''{{WebComic/Goblins}}'', ''{{WebComic/Homestuck}}'', ''{{WebComic/Unsounded}}'', ''{{WebComic/xkcd}}'', WebVideo/{{Jacksepticeye}}, and [=Sl1pg8r=]. |
| 511 | ** [[Film/ASeriesofUnfortunateEvents "Where's the roast beef?"]] in [=S3E28=]. |
| 512 | ** The equipment naming themes (see below) in multiple seasons. |
| 513 | * SoundEffectBleep: In [=S1E16=], when Sorc falls into a dark cave, he manages to stifle a "fffff-", but then lets a curse slip when a skeleton starts shooting him a moment later. So it got bleeped. |
| 514 | ** Several of the bigger collab episodes feature bleeping due to some other members of the server being... not so careful with their language. |
| 515 | * SpecialEditionTitle: [=S1E35=] incorporates the opening of [=S1E1=] as a callback, which naturally includes the original iteration of the title sequence. |
| 516 | * TheStinger: |
| 517 | ** [=S1E17=] has Sorc's reaction to nearly falling into lava in the Nether. |
| 518 | ** [=S1E18=] has Sorc killing a Wither skeleton and a ghast. |
| 519 | ** [=S2E7=] features a "super zombie". |
| 520 | * TheTeaser: |
| 521 | ** [=S1E28=] opens with Sorc going slowly insane from [[ItMakesSenseInContext sheep exposure]]. |
| 522 | ** [=S1E45=]. ''Spiders.'' |
| 523 | ** [=S2E6=] has the part of the pre-dragon speech that was made just as he started recording, before he was ready to begin. |
| 524 | * ThemeNaming: Sorc's equipment each season generally follows a theme: |
| 525 | ** Season 2: no specific theme but every name was a ShoutOut to something. |
| 526 | ** Season 3: GratuitousLatin translations of each item. |
| 527 | ** Season 4: major ''My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic'' characters. |
| 528 | ** Season 5: major ''[[Literature/TheEdgeChronicles Edge Chronicles]]'' characters. |
| 529 | * TimeLapse: Demolishing the ocean monument at the end of [=S1E21=], and building [[spoiler:Papyrus]] at the start of [=S2E7=]. |
| 530 | * TitleSequence: Has gone through four slightly differing iterations for quality upgrades, but is completely unchanged in design from the very first episode. |
| 531 | |
| 532 | [[/folder]] |
| 533 | [[folder:Mirror's Edge]] |
| 534 | ->''Get ready to hardcore parkour!'' |
| 535 | -->-- Description on the series playlist. |
| 536 | |
| 537 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 538 | * CurseCutShort: After utterly failing a jump and being reset to the very beginning of the Jacknife chase for the umpteenth time in episode 16, Sorc begins to exasperatedly exclaim "Oh, for fu-" before cutting some way into the next attempt, [[SoundEffectBleep right when a car horn sounds]]. |
| 539 | * GenreSavvy: Sorc predicts ahead of time that the murderer is [[spoiler:Celeste]], and when he is later proven correct, he pops a trophy lampshading what he regards as the complete obviousness of the "twist". |
| 540 | --> Sorc: "Can I get a called it?" |
| 541 | --> Trophy popup: "'''Totally called it''' ''Correctly predicted the bleeding obvious twist.''" |
| 542 | ** He also suggested [[spoiler:Jacknife]] could be the murderer, though it was the "too obvious" option. So he wasn't remotely surprised to find out that [[spoiler:Jacknife was the one who took Kate from Merc's place at the start of the final chapter]], though this one was not something he specifically predicted. |
| 543 | --->Sorc: "''You.'' I might have known." |
| 544 | * NotMeThisTime: Sorc generally does cop to deaths that are his own fault for messing up, which means that when one happens due to lag, he is emphatic about blaming the game for it on that occasion. |
| 545 | * PaintingTheMedium: Some way into the series, Sorc began awarding himself faux PSN trophies whenever he reached milestones such as fifty total deaths on camera. And occasionally for sillier things like dying due to lag... or finding the secret cow [[BlatantLies that totally exists in the game, and wasn't just an audio oddity, honest]]. |
| 546 | * SayMyName: Sorc tends to get quite exasperated with Faith when she doesn't do something he thinks she ought to, such as make a jump or grab a ledge. Usually meaning she plummets to her death. Which happens rather frequently. |
| 547 | * ScoreScreen: Death counters are once again implemented. |
| 548 | * ShoutOut: |
| 549 | ** The playlist description is a line from WebVideo/{{Jacksepticeye}}'s ''I am Bread'' series. |
| 550 | ** If the name of a trophy isn't simply an IncrediblyLamePun, it's one of these instead. |
| 551 | * StuffBlowingUp: Explicitly invoked as the name of one of the trophies. |
| 552 | * [[invoked]]WhatCouldHaveBeen: Sorc had two trophies planned for the final episode that he sadly fell ''just barely'' short of achieving. One was "Score!", which would have been for 20 deaths of the same type in one chapter.[[note]]Of course, the name of the trophy is a GeniusBonus[=/=]IncrediblyLamePun on "score" being a word for something that is twenty in quantity.[[/note]] The other, no specific name planned ahead of time, was for being shot 50 times in total. In addition to this, there are other trophies that Sorc would have done, such as 20 total deaths in one chapter, were it not for the fact that they would have been earned in an episode that came out before Sorc started doing the trophies, causing a continuity issue had he done them in the finale. |
| 553 | ** The tragic thing is that, had Sorc counted deaths that he deemed to "not count" earlier in the series (ones that happened off-camera, or while replaying a chapter after clearing it), he would have met both planned achievements. |
| 554 | |
| 555 | [[/folder]] |
| 556 | [[folder:Modded Minecraft]] |
| 557 | ->''Join Sorceror Nobody as he larks about in a survival world using his own custom modpack!'' |
| 558 | -->-- Description on the series playlist. |
| 559 | |
| 560 | The first LP on the channel, featuring gameplay in a custom personal ''Minecraft'' modpack put together by Sorc, with some additional mods being added in later episodes. |
| 561 | |
| 562 | The series is concluded, and consists of one introductory video, thirty-five episodes, two unlisted bonus videos, a three-part retrospective of the series, and a short teaser for Modsauce just to round out the playlist to forty videos. |
| 563 | |
| 564 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 565 | * AddedAlliterativeAppeal |
| 566 | ** Episode 3, "Planning the Prism". |
| 567 | ** Episode 10, "Remodel the rainbow". |
| 568 | ** Episode 12, "More Mystcraft musings". |
| 569 | ** Episode 23, "A Minecraft miscellany". |
| 570 | * ArcNumber: Built the Brand (which itself invokes the number 13) in episode 13. This was not an intentional invocation of the number, however. |
| 571 | * {{Beat}}: The best example for this series occurs in episode 10, when Sorc enters a Mystcraft age with an incredibly loud eternal thunderstorm. |
| 572 | -->Holy... CRAP. |
| 573 | -->''[beat]'' |
| 574 | -->[[LightningCanDoAnything Luggage~]] |
| 575 | * BlahBlahBlah: Episode 5 in general probably counts, but one particular segment is a serious offender, and accordingly has a text caption fill the screen with "blah"s. |
| 576 | -->Good grief, eighty solid seconds of talking. |
| 577 | * BorrowedCatchphrase: Nearly [[{{Pun}} slips]] into [=Sl1pg8r=]'s standard outro at the end of episode 14, but catches himself doing it. |
| 578 | * [[invoked]]{{Blooper}}: Has two (genuine) outtakes at the end of episode 4, where [[spoiler:his ghost dragon comes into shot while he is trying to conceal it]]. |
| 579 | * FunWithAcronyms: Calls his untidy Applied Energistics ME network the "ME Spaghetti System" due to the cables going all over the place with little organisation. [[DontExplainTheJoke So it's the "M.E.S.S." for short]]. |
| 580 | * GratuitousLatin: Sorc's dragon mounts are all given Latin names based on which type of dragon they are. |
| 581 | * [[MarathonLevel Marathon Episode]]: Episode 5, the length of which was the main trigger for Sorc really starting to make an effort to rein in episode lengths. He still has variable success at doing so, but has improved considerably. |
| 582 | * {{Montage}}: |
| 583 | ** Building the Prism in episode 7. |
| 584 | ** Completing the Prism in episode 10. |
| 585 | ** Building the Brand in episode 13. |
| 586 | ** Killing zombies in episode 15. |
| 587 | ** Building the Crockercrop tower in episode 20. |
| 588 | ** [[spoiler:Going to the End and fighting the Ender Dragon]] in episode 25. |
| 589 | ** Building the Brand portal tower in episode 35. |
| 590 | ** The end of the retrospective. |
| 591 | * TheReveal: Mentions in episode 6 that he has something planned for [[spoiler:his dragon]]. The reveal came much later, in episode 25, where his plan turned out to be that [[spoiler:he rode it in the Ender Dragon fight]]. |
| 592 | * ReversePsychology: PlayedForLaughs in episode 20, where he deliberately aligns a "SUBSCRIBE" subliminal message with a verbal comment about people wanting to stop watching the video. |
| 593 | * RuleOfCool: Why ''wouldn't'' he [[spoiler:fight the Ender Dragon from the back of his own mount]]? |
| 594 | * ShoutOut |
| 595 | ** Sorc has [[{{Webcomic/Homestuck}} 413]] experience levels in the series introduction video. |
| 596 | ** Episode 6, "[[Film/TheWizardOfOz Pigmen and chickens and ghasts, oh my!]]" |
| 597 | ** His "Crockercrop" farm tower is a ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}''-based pun. |
| 598 | *** The words "LIKE", "SUBSCRIBE" and "COMMENT" flash on screen during the commentary about the name, in the style of the subliminal messages used by [[spoiler:the Condesce on B2 Earth]]. |
| 599 | * SoundtrackDissonance: After the initial actual building segment, the music for the remainder of the MAC timelapse is really very inapt in how driving and upbeat it is. [[DontExplainTheJoke The retrospective states that this was intentional]]. |
| 600 | * StageWhisper: "I hope you have a great rest of yo' day!" after the fadeout at the end of episode 14. This was prompted by the Borrowed Catchphrase instance described above. |
| 601 | * TheStinger: Episode 4's bloopers. |
| 602 | * ThirteenIsUnlucky: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] by episode 13, wherein the long-standing aim of finding a suitable Mystcraft age was finally accomplished; the episode is accordingly titled "Lucky thirteen". |
| 603 | * TimeLapse: |
| 604 | ** Clearing out the caves at the end of episode 1. |
| 605 | ** Travelling to the Rainbow Forest biome in episode 2. |
| 606 | ** The rainbow tree decay timelapse in episode 7. |
| 607 | ** Building his MAC in episode 15. |
| 608 | ** The impromptu mining timelapse in episode 18. |
| 609 | ** The bonus video tied to episode 20. |
| 610 | ** The Wither fight segments in episode 22. ''Technically'' timelapses, since the footage is slightly sped up to fit the music. |
| 611 | ** Most of the individual parts of the episode 25 montage are also timelapses for the same reason as the Wither fight. [[AvertedTrope Averted]] by the associated bonus video, however, which contains the entirety of the [[spoiler:Ender Dragon fight]] footage that the montage is derived from. |
| 612 | * TheTeaser: Episode 35's is all about dat fez. |
| 613 | * TitleSequence: Got a unique one from episode 25 onwards. |
| 614 | * UnreadableDisclaimer[=/=]{{UNREADABLYFASTTEXT}}: At the start of episode 15, a disclaimer about the episode title scrolls up the screen really fast and, of course, thanks the viewer for making the effort to pause and read it. |
| 615 | |
| 616 | [[/folder]] |
| 617 | [[folder:Modsauce]] |
| 618 | ->''Let's get saucy with modded Minecraft!'' |
| 619 | -->-- Description on the series playlist. |
| 620 | |
| 621 | The replacement to the custom pack modded series, which started shortly after the public release of the official Hermitcraft modpack, "Modsauce". |
| 622 | |
| 623 | The series is effectively concluded, and consists of ten episodes. |
| 624 | |
| 625 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 626 | * AbortedArc: Replaced by FTB Infinity when Sorc resumed his ''Minecraft'' [=LPs=]. |
| 627 | * AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Episode 5, "Base beginnings, Videogame/{{Botania}}, and BloodMagic". |
| 628 | * {{Beat}}: In episode 7. |
| 629 | -->C'mon, I want some Spanish moss |
| 630 | -->''[uses mutandis, gets Spanish moss]'' |
| 631 | -->''[beat]'' |
| 632 | -->My dark powers frighten even me. |
| 633 | * ShoutOut: To [[http://xkcd.com/1133/ this]] {{Webcomic/xkcd}} in the description on episode 8. |
| 634 | |
| 635 | [[/folder]] |
| 636 | [[folder:Nefarious]] |
| 637 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 638 | * HitboxDissonance: Sorc's most frequent beef with the game, and a particular frustration in the final boss fight. He considers it the main thing that would take the game from good to great if fixed with a patch. |
| 639 | * RunningGag: Every single episode has an allusion to ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', accompanied by a brief image of a character from the show. '''Every single one.''' Though some are bigger stretches than others, being shoehorned in retroactively during editing rather than intended during recording. Especially the Owlowiscious one. |
| 640 | * ShoutOut: There is an allusion to ''My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic'' in every episode. |
| 641 | |
| 642 | [[/folder]] |
| 643 | [[folder:Ori and the Blind Forest]] |
| 644 | |
| 645 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 646 | * AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Episode 8 stands out for one particular moment. |
| 647 | --> "There's the energy cell... SQUIRREL!" |
| 648 | * BuffySpeak: The description on episode 3. |
| 649 | -->Our mission continues to recover the Shiny Ball so we can get into the Big Tree Place to make the Wetness Magic better. |
| 650 | * SugarWiki/GushingAboutShowsYouLike: While Sorc will frequently be complimentary to games he's enjoyed, this was the first (and, so far, only) game where he ''planned in advance'' all the things he intended to comment on, just to make sure he'd remember to say it all during the credits. And he praised just about every aspect of the game. |
| 651 | * ShoutOut: |
| 652 | ** Episode six has several: The title references Spider-Man, the video description references ''[[Series/TheFreshPrinceofBelAir The Fresh Prince of Bel Air]]'', and a poorly judged platforming attempt is described as [[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} "RIDICULOUS FOLLY. INEXCUSABLE."]] |
| 653 | |
| 654 | [[/folder]] |
| 655 | [[folder:Ori and the Will of the Wisps]] |
| 656 | |
| 657 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 658 | * SugarWiki/GushingAboutShowsYouLike: Inevitably, given his gushing about ''Blind Forest'', Sorc doesn't hesitate to gush about this game right from the start. The first episode is even titled "SO MUCH GUSHING", and the video description calls the game delightful no fewer than four times. |
| 659 | |
| 660 | [[/folder]] |
| 661 | [[folder:Overwatch]] |
| 662 | |
| 663 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 664 | * CallBack: When Sorc dies in a match as a direct, unambiguous result of server latency in episode 10, the "Blame the game, not the gamer" faux trophy that appeared in episode 9 of ''VideoGame/MirrorsEdge'' pops up. |
| 665 | |
| 666 | [[/folder]] |
| 667 | [[folder:[=Please, Don't Touch Anything 3D=]]] |
| 668 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 669 | * WhatWereYouThinking: Towards the developers. Although in principle an engaging VR experience, there were some issues. Most notable of which was the fact that the player perspective was locked facing backwards for some strange reason, making the game both patchy on tracking and pretty bad for a video, since Sorc had to primarily face away from his computer and, therefore, his Rift sensors and his camera. |
| 670 | |
| 671 | [[/folder]] |
| 672 | [[folder:Portal]] |
| 673 | ->''|ng with portals! :: Now I'm thinki|'' |
| 674 | -->-- Description on the series playlist. |
| 675 | |
| 676 | Or more accurately, ''Portal'', ''Portal 2'', ''Thinking with Time Machine'', and any other mods that Sorc feels like playing. This LP occupied the Wednesday slot. Technically not concluded, in that Sorc does hope to go back and finish the co-op courses, but that's a logistical issue that as yet remains unsolved. |
| 677 | |
| 678 | The episode breakdown is as follows: |
| 679 | * 1-4: ''Portal'' storyline |
| 680 | * 5-6: ''Portal'' advanced test chambers |
| 681 | * 7-16: ''Portal 2'' storyline |
| 682 | * 17: ''Portal 2'' co-op |
| 683 | * 18-19: ''Thinking with Time Machine'' |
| 684 | * 20-29: ''Portal Stories: Mel'' |
| 685 | * 30-37: ''Portal: Prelude'' |
| 686 | * 38: ''Portal 2'' co-op |
| 687 | |
| 688 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 689 | * {{Beat}}: In episode 1, succeeds in grabbing a radio, only for it to hit the emancipation grill that was right below it. |
| 690 | -->''[radio fizzles] [beat]'' Okay then. |
| 691 | * BlatantLies: Episode 2 has two of them: |
| 692 | -->I'm sorry, did I say [=GLaDOS=]? I don't know her name yet. Obviously. |
| 693 | -->''[after very deliberately fizzling two turrets]'' ...I'm not cruel. |
| 694 | * BrickJoke: One planned right from the start of the LP, before even the first episode had been recorded. [[spoiler:The "Companion cubes euthanised" score first appears in episode 2, and decreases by one at the end of ''Portal 2'', when [=GLaDOS=] returns the original companion cube to Chell. ''Fourteen episodes later.'']] |
| 695 | * CallBack: The later episodes of ''Portal 2'' are full of them, especially the final one. |
| 696 | * DelayedReaction: Deliberately, of course, in episode 8: |
| 697 | -->'''[=GLaDOS=]:''' "So there's nothing to stop us testing for the rest of your life. After that...who knows? I might take up a hobby. Reanimating the dead, maybe." |
| 698 | -->'''Sorc:''' "Oh, that sounds co-''wait a minute''." |
| 699 | * [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Pungeon Masters Have Standards]]: Invoked in the video description of episode 12. |
| 700 | * ForScience: The justification for the deliberately ridiculous number of things kept count of during the LP. |
| 701 | * [[invoked]]FridgeHorror: Sorc has a fridge horror moment in episode 8, when for the first time he actually stops to think about why the dual portal gun would be found where it is. |
| 702 | * KickTheDog: [[spoiler:"Companion cubes euthanised: 1"]] |
| 703 | * PaintingTheMedium: The ScoreScreen is fairly dynamic, often altering itself in response to things that change while it's still on-screen. |
| 704 | ** The first statistic is "Cameras detached", which is accompanied by "Statistics tracked: 1". The latter counter then gets an immediate additional +1 ''to account for the statistic counting itself''. |
| 705 | ** "Transmissions received" are accompanied by the SSTV images the transmissions decode to. |
| 706 | ** Although "Turrets toppled" is the initial turret-related statistic, it self-updates to "Turrets neutralised" in episode 9 when Sorc first destroys a turret with a thermal discouragement beam. |
| 707 | ** "Mentions of cake" [[PlayedForLaughs plays this for laughs]] by also counting visual representations of cake. The result is that it attempts to rapidly update to keep up with [[spoiler:the flashing images on [=GLaDOS=]'s screens in episode 4, but it quickly gives up and just displays "???". [[RuleOfFunny And then starts counting "???+1" etc.]]]] |
| 708 | *** This is then even further lampshaded in episode 10, where Sorc points out that he isn't counting all the turrets being thrown into the incinerator, because he'd just end up losing count, and he did that joke already with the mentions of cake. |
| 709 | *** And then reused in ''Portal: Prelude" when [=GLaDOS=] gets switched on, resulting in the deliberately stupid count of "???+???". |
| 710 | * PunctuatedForEmphasis: When he sees the radio perched on [[spoiler:the edge of the incinerator]] in episode 3. |
| 711 | -->[[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe Are. You. Kidding me.]] |
| 712 | * SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: "Donk" and "twang" in episode 2. |
| 713 | * ScoreScreen: Exaggerated by tracking over a dozen statistics, including the pointlessly {{meta}} "Episodes concluded", "Storylines completed", and... "Statistics tracked". |
| 714 | * ShoutOut: |
| 715 | ** Two in episode 2. First to ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', when picking up a bucket, and second to Birgirpall's ''Surgeon Simulator'' video, with "Put a donk on it". |
| 716 | * SoundEffectBleep: The first one on his channel in episode 2. Also, quite a lot of them in ''Portal: Prelude'' (accompanied by blurring the words in the on-screen captioning), especially in episode 33, due to the fact that the [=NPCs=] swear quite (or, very, in one case) liberally. |
| 717 | * TheStinger: |
| 718 | ** Episode 11 repeats [=GLaDOS=]'s core replacement autotune screaming. [[HellIsThatNoise Because you can never have enough of that.]] |
| 719 | ** Episode 16 has "SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!" |
| 720 | ** After the many technical issues that plagued episode 38, the outro is followed by Sorc's post-recording remarks: |
| 721 | -->And that ordeal is over... "Portal2.exe has stopped working." Yaaaay. Feel free. FEEL FREE, I DON'T CARE NOW. |
| 722 | * [[invoked]]TrollingCreator: In episode 9, there is an [[spoiler:outro psycheout after Sorc promises not to cut the episode short in precisely that way. Which is immediately made into a double psycheout by cutting back to the game with a needle scratch. The icing on the cake is that, as is usual for the outro, annotations appear over the recent videos with links... but for the psycheout, those links are both Rickrolls]]. |
| 723 | * UnreadablyFastText: "1500 Megawatt Aperture Science Heavy Duty Super-Colliding Super Button" scrolls across the screen in the span of just under two seconds in episode 7. Although it was deliberately done to invoke this trope, it ended up being somewhat more unreadable than Sorc intended. It can still be caught by pausing, though. |
| 724 | * UnsoundEffect: Describing the reset of a turret's laser sight to neutral as a "twang". Not an unsound effect because twang isn't a sound, but because no actual sound is made. |
| 725 | * [[invoked]]WhatCouldHaveBeen: Sorc belatedly decided that he'd have liked to have had [[spoiler:some indistinct whispering going on, attributed to the companion cube,]] in episode 2; unfortunately, he'd already rerendered the video a few times to correct editing oversights, and frankly he could not be bothered by that point to edit around his existing commentary to add such a thing. |
| 726 | |
| 727 | [[/folder]] |
| 728 | [[folder:Scanner Sombre]] |
| 729 | |
| 730 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 731 | * IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every episode title is a single word. |
| 732 | * TitleDrop: The title of the final episode is "Sombre", referencing the title of the game. |
| 733 | |
| 734 | [[/folder]] |
| 735 | [[folder:Sonic Adventure 2]] |
| 736 | ->''Watch now for your chance to win a free cannon lizard!'' |
| 737 | -->-- Description on the series playlist. |
| 738 | |
| 739 | The first side LP, started a short time after the custom modpack LP [[ItAmusedMe because Sorc felt like it]]. |
| 740 | |
| 741 | The series is concluded, and consists of eleven main episodes and three bonus episodes. |
| 742 | |
| 743 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 744 | * [[invoked]]AnnoyingVideoGameHelper: Sorc is not interested in hearing anything Omachao has to say, ever. |
| 745 | * FlatWhat: Invoked by a large on-screen caption when he outright clips through the road in the episode 9 timelapse. |
| 746 | * GrammarNazi: One particular error in the subtitles in episode 7 prompts a replay with a large flashing red text caption. |
| 747 | * IncrediblyLamePun: A few of the episode titles. Special mention goes to episode 5, "The Blue Bluh", and the deliciously cringeworthy episode 6, "Darker and eggier" for the start of the dark side story. |
| 748 | * MarathonLevel: Or rather, marathon video. The finale is almost exactly an hour long, mostly by happenstance, but partly by intent. |
| 749 | * ScoreScreen: On-screen death counters on Final Rush, Final Chase, Cannon's Core and the endgame bosses. Totals for all deaths (not just the ones counted on-screen) are given at the end of each story. |
| 750 | -->0: That jammy echidna |
| 751 | * TheStinger: Debatable whether it counts as a stinger, since it's a full five minutes of footage, but after the "official" end of the episode is a bonus clip to demonstrate what happens if [[spoiler:time runs out on the [=FinalHazard=] fight]]. |
| 752 | * TimeLapse: A few, to get through unimportant gameplay. Universally set to [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic E.G.G.M.A.N.]] |
| 753 | * TitleSequence: From episode 3 onwards. |
| 754 | * {{UNREADABLYFASTTEXT}}: Serial escalations of the phrase "Famous last words" appear on screen ''extremely'' briefly in the finale, referring to Sorc describing the [[spoiler:final boss as being less challenging than Biolizard]]. |
| 755 | -->Famous last words. |
| 756 | -->Very famous last words. |
| 757 | -->The most famous last words of all. |
| 758 | -->[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Generic]] [[OverlyLongGag flash-past]] [[TropeName remark.]] |
| 759 | |
| 760 | [[/folder]] |
| 761 | [[folder:Sonic Forces]] |
| 762 | ->''Sonic Forces me to make the obligatory joke about Sonic forcing me to do something.'' |
| 763 | -->-- Description on the series playlist. |
| 764 | |
| 765 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 766 | * IncrediblyLamePun: When Infinite opens the portal to Null Space: "Well, this sucks." |
| 767 | * ShoutOut: The video description for episode 6 is a play on the lyrics of Infinite's theme. |
| 768 | -->''When every ring I've grabbed has come and gone, only scores remain of what I've done. But the storyline will carry on -- this game persists, I cannot quit, 'cause that's what it takes to beat Infinite!'' |
| 769 | |
| 770 | [[/folder]] |
| 771 | [[folder:Spectrum]] |
| 772 | ->''A colourful and quirky CTM map by... kwirky.'' |
| 773 | -->-- Description on the series playlist. |
| 774 | |
| 775 | A ''Minecraft'' Complete The Monument map that Sorc played for five episodes while taking a break from the vanilla LP, due to his time on the server being spent on the secret project for [=Sl1pg8r=]'s birthday. |
| 776 | |
| 777 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 778 | |
| 779 | [[/folder]] |
| 780 | [[folder:Subnautica]] |
| 781 | ->''Damn nature, you scary.'' |
| 782 | -->-- Description on the series playlist. |
| 783 | |
| 784 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 785 | * [[invoked]]{{Blooper}}: Episode 9 starts with Sorc letting Jack's Septic Tank fill in part of the intro. It ends with a reel of the attempts where it responded with everything but the desired voice clip. |
| 786 | -->'''Sorc:''' "Hello everyone, and..." |
| 787 | -->'''Septic Tank:''' "Punch the like button in the face!" |
| 788 | -->'''Sorc:''' "...well, you can do that, but that's not what I'm going for." |
| 789 | * IncrediblyLamePun: Episode 6, Aurora explorealis, a play on aurora borealis. |
| 790 | * IRegretNothing: Going out into the dead zone in VR was an entirely necessary experience to include in the series. As was doing it again (not in VR) just to make a point of encountering the maximum of three adult ghost leviathans at once. Totally WorthIt, no matter the consequences for cardiac health. |
| 791 | * {{Montage}}: Episode 14 features a "deconstructage" of his seabase. |
| 792 | * PaintingTheMedium: Uses his test card in the episode 9 blooper reel. |
| 793 | * ShoutOut: |
| 794 | ** All of Sorc's vehicles are named after ''[[Film/HarryPotter Harry Potter]]'' actors: |
| 795 | *** The Seamoth is named [[Creator/AlanRickman Rickman]], initially as a reference to Absolem in ''[[Film/AliceInWonderland2010 Alice in Wonderland]]''. |
| 796 | *** The Cyclops is named [[Creator/BrendanGleeson Gleeson]], because Mad-Eye Moody [[{{Pun}} only has one eye]]. This was the point at which Sorc made it an intentional plan to use all ''Potter'' actor names. |
| 797 | *** The PRAWN Suit is named [[Creator/JasonIsaacs Isaacs]] through somewhat roundabout logic involving it being required to go to the lava zone, implying Hell, implying Lucifer, implying Lucius Malfoy. |
| 798 | *** The Neptune rocket is named [[Creator/DanielRadcliffe Radcliffe]], for no specific reason other than it seeming somewhat fitting for the most important vehicle. Then again, perhaps it should have been [[Creator/RupertGrint Grint]], since it's a [[Film/{{Thunderpants}} rocket]]... |
| 799 | ** Episode 9 features the Disease Research Facility and is, somewhat inevitably, titled "Down with the sickness". |
| 800 | ** Episode 11's title is a reference to the [[Website/SCPFoundation SCP Foundation]]. |
| 801 | ** Appropriately for a game that already references it, the titles of episodes 12 and 13 allude to ''[[Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]''. |
| 802 | ** Two to ''My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic'': the description of episode 4 is a verse of Pinkie's Smile song, and the title of episode 17 is a play on Winter Wrap-up. |
| 803 | ** Episode 16's title is an obvious play on the Pokémon catchphrase. Heh... ''[[{{Pun}} catch]]''phrase. |
| 804 | * TheStinger: The blooper reel at the end of episode 9. |
| 805 | |
| 806 | [[/folder]] |
| 807 | [[folder:SUPERHOT]] |
| 808 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 809 | * TheBusCameBack: The original game only got one episode, as something went wrong with recording the second one, and Sorc never got around to fixing it. After a substantial gap, the series continued with the VR version instead. Then, after another long gap, Sorc decided to finally continue with the original game. |
| 810 | * CallBack: In episode five, directly mentions one comment he made in his ''Mirror's Edge'' series (about wanting to pick up guns while doing fancy acrobatics), and further calls back to another (about punching guys off buildings). |
| 811 | |
| 812 | [[/folder]] |
| 813 | [[folder:Surgeon Simulator]] |
| 814 | ->''I'm sure nothing can possibly go wrong.'' |
| 815 | -->-- Description on the series playlist. |
| 816 | |
| 817 | The third side LP, started after ''Transistor'' concluded, and initially intended to be a breather series, starting in a week of no ''Minecraft'' episodes being released; as such, the first seven episodes ran on a one-per-day output rate, as a new channel schedule was being instituted the following week. |
| 818 | |
| 819 | The series is concluded, and consists of sixteen episodes. |
| 820 | |
| 821 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 822 | * OneHundredPercentCompletion: The series originally ended after ten episodes with all achievements earned. |
| 823 | * AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Episode 11, "Burke is back!" |
| 824 | * [[TheBusCameBack The Ambulance Came Back]]: For an additional five episodes, due to the ''A&E: Anniversary Edition'' DLC. |
| 825 | ** And then again for one more episode to cover the Donald Trump surgery. |
| 826 | ** And then ''again'' for the VR "Experience Reality" version of the game. |
| 827 | * AnnoyingLaugh: A deliberately goofy laugh in episode 15 turns out rather more dreadful than intended. |
| 828 | * BlatantLies: The playlist description. |
| 829 | * CatchPhrase: "Be severed!" |
| 830 | * FunWithHomophones: Episode 16's title.[[note]]Considering Trump is involved, one could also say that episode was [[IncrediblyLamePun Fun With Homophobes]]![[/note]] |
| 831 | * GeniusBonus: Episode 16, concerning the Donald Trump surgery, is titled "Burke meets berk". For those who don't know, the term "berk" is mostly colloquially used in the UK to merely mean "idiot"; however, Sorc is very much aware of [[CountryMatters the actual etymology]], and its use in the title is ''extremely'' intentional. |
| 832 | * GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The use of the word "berk" in the title of episode 16. |
| 833 | * ScaryShinyGlasses: Seen on Bob's goggles in episode 14 during the space eye transplant. |
| 834 | * ScoreScreen: Tracks the number of watches lost, the number of times the patient dies, and the number of spoons flipped (of which caught, and whether [[WebVideo/BirgirPall sick filth]] has been achieved). |
| 835 | * ShoutOut: |
| 836 | ** Episode 5 is titled "The One With Compromised Audio" as a deliberate invocation of [[JustForFun/TheOneWith the former trope]]. |
| 837 | ** "[[{{Theatre/Macbeth}} Out, damn'd box! Out, I say!]]" in episode 12. |
| 838 | * TheStinger: |
| 839 | ** Episode 5 has a review of the majesty that is the 180 spoon flip. |
| 840 | ** Episode 13 features the broken physics engine montage. |
| 841 | ** Episodes 17-19 all have some post-outro nonsense. |
| 842 | * ThirteenIsUnlucky: Episode 13 [[GoneHorriblyWrong went horribly wrong]] in multiple ways. But at least it has a great thumbnail and [[spoiler:a bonus Talking Stain Dance performance at the end of the video]], thanks to the physics engine [[EpicFail going horribly wrong in an utterly hilarious fashion]]. |
| 843 | |
| 844 | [[/folder]] |
| 845 | [[folder:The Swapper]] |
| 846 | A puzzle-platformer currently occupying the Wednesday slot. |
| 847 | |
| 848 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 849 | * ShoutOut: In episode 2, an NPC saying "Look, it's too late now to apologise." prompts Sorc to put a caption on screen noting that he had to resist the urge to insert a brief clip of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSM3w1v-A_Y&t=1m46s a certain music video]] in response to that line, and only the risk of a Content ID Match stopped him. |
| 850 | |
| 851 | [[/folder]] |
| 852 | [[folder:The Talos Principle]] |
| 853 | ->''"Philosophical puzzler" is a lot more fun than it might sound!'' |
| 854 | -->-- Description on the series playlist. |
| 855 | |
| 856 | A philosophical puzzler that occupied the Wednesday slot. |
| 857 | |
| 858 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 859 | * SugarWiki/BetterThanItSounds: Invoked by the playlist description. |
| 860 | * EasterEgg: The icon for the QR code counter is a working QR code. [[spoiler:[[TrollingCreator It's a Rickroll.]]]] |
| 861 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: A minor one in episode 25 after [[spoiler:his retaliatory dickishness towards Milton leads inexorably to Sorc being forced to uninstall him]] – something that he didn't want to do, and immediately regrets. |
| 862 | * ScoreScreen: Deaths experienced, QR codes scanned, terminals accessed, mentions of the tower, stars located and collected, philosophical questions, epitaphs found, and mines detonated. The VR series adds "VR breaks". |
| 863 | * [[invoked]]SeriesHiatus: For nine months after episodes 18, due to puzzle fatigue. And then picked back up with considerable gusto from 19 to 26, where the main game storyline was concluded and the main game series ended. A further hiatus ensued until Sorc got the VR version of the game and began the Road to Gehenna DLC. |
| 864 | * SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Averted. Sorc declines to restore a backup in order to undo [[spoiler:his uninstallation of Milton]], not out of a lack of regret, but instead arguably as a punishment to himself. |
| 865 | -->I know, I could restore a backup, and go back before I [[spoiler:uninstalled him]], and not do it, but... I think I need to live with what I did. |
| 866 | * ShoutOut: The title of episode 9 to a level in ''Crash Bandicoot Warped''. |
| 867 | * SpaceWhaleAesop: A touch of BlackComedy after the above MyGodWhatHaveIDone. ItMakesSenseInContext, mind you. |
| 868 | -->Moral of this episode: don't be an ass to someone just because you can. You might end up [[spoiler:being forced to uninstall them]], and regret it. |
| 869 | * TheStinger: Episode 5, due to the fact that the game footage spectacularly failed to record, has the audio of the moment when Sorc found out. |
| 870 | --> That's been recording, right...? ''*clicking*'' [[CurseCutShort Ffffff-]] |
| 871 | * TakeThat: In episode 26. |
| 872 | -->ELOHIM: "I know you seek the truth. But if you stay, we can make our own truth." |
| 873 | -->Sorc: "That's not how truth works. No matter how much the Trump administration might want it to." |
| 874 | * WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Pretty much the entire theme of the game, but brought into focus by Sorc himself at the end of the game, where it's clear that he basically regards [[spoiler:uninstalling Milton as having murdered him]]. |
| 875 | -->This is the "Take it with you"... but I can't, [[spoiler:because I kil-]] |
| 876 | |
| 877 | [[/folder]] |
| 878 | [[folder:Transistor]] |
| 879 | ->''Begin Playlist(); plan Episode() x 15; execute Playlist()'' |
| 880 | -->-- Description on the series playlist. |
| 881 | |
| 882 | The second side LP, started shortly after the conclusion of ''Sonic Adventure 2''. |
| 883 | |
| 884 | The series is concluded, and consists of one failed attempt at the opening episode ("Episode 0") and fourteen proper episodes. |
| 885 | |
| 886 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 887 | * AnimationBump: The intro and outro sequence from this series are still Sorc's personal favourites compared to his other LP intros. Not so much for quality, but for artistry. |
| 888 | * IncrediblyLamePun: Virtually all of the episode titles. Episode 8, "Spinal Tap()", is the most glorious by far. |
| 889 | * ThemeNaming: The title of every episode (bar 0) is a pun on the game's combat abilities, and the playlist description also invokes the combat function structure. |
| 890 | * TitleSequence: From episode 4 onwards. As noted above, still Sorc's personal favourite. |
| 891 | |
| 892 | [[/folder]] |
| 893 | [[folder:Windlands]] |
| 894 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 895 | * [[invoked]]ThatOneLevel: The Sky Challenge. Sorc subsequently completed it in VR instead. |
| 896 | |
| 897 | [[/folder]] |
| 898 | |
| 899 | !Livestreamed games |
| 900 | !!Currently untroped entries |
| 901 | * ''VideoGame/BattleBlockTheater'' |
| 902 | * ''VideoGame/{{Boneworks}}'' |
| 903 | * ''VideoGame/{{Control}}'' |
| 904 | * ''VideoGame/CrashTeamRacingNitroFueled'' |
| 905 | * ''VideoGame/DetroitBecomeHuman'' |
| 906 | * ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasyNT'' |
| 907 | * ''[[VideoGame/DungeonKeeper Dungeon Keeper 2]]'' |
| 908 | * ''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn'' |
| 909 | * ''VideoGame/{{Raft}}'' |
| 910 | * ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate: World of Light'' |
| 911 | * ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'' |
| 912 | |
| 913 | !!Troped entries |
| 914 | [[folder:Final Fantasy [=Type-0=]]] |
| 915 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 916 | * AbortedArc: Only has one stream, because Sorc just didn't find the game all that engaging. |
| 917 | |
| 918 | [[/folder]] |
| 919 | [[folder:Final Fantasy VII Remake]] |
| 920 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 921 | * MenDontCry: Defied in part 5. [[spoiler:Jessie's death during the Sector 7 pillar assault]] causes Sorc to cry on camera. He points out that he knew from the original game that it was almost certain to happen, but he still wasn't ready for it due to how much more work has been put into [[spoiler:fleshing out the Avalanche members]]. |
| 922 | ** Sorc was also braced to cry again if the party had [[spoiler:found Wedge's body]] but it turned out that in the Remake, unlike the original, [[spoiler:Wedge survived the event and they find him alive]]. |
| 923 | * UnusualChapterNumbers: Part 7 has "VII" instead of "7" in the title. |
| 924 | |
| 925 | [[/folder]] |
| 926 | [[folder:Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age]] |
| 927 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 928 | * UnusualChapterNumbers: Part 12 has "XII" instead of "12" in the title. |
| 929 | |
| 930 | [[/folder]] |
| 931 | [[folder:Kingdom Hearts III (and Re:Mind)]] |
| 932 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 933 | * ArcNumber: 3, 7 and 13 are all important numbers in the ''Kingdom Hearts'' franchise. The playlist for KHIII has 13 videos thanks to part 7 being split into 3. The playlist for Re:Mind also ended at 7 videos, after Sorc decided making it to the halfway point when fighting [[spoiler:Yozora]] is as far as he wants to take streaming the DLC, since the alternative would probably be numerous streams consisting of nothing but failed attempts. |
| 934 | * UnusualChapterNumbers: Part 3 in each playlist has "III" instead of "3" in the title. |
| 935 | |
| 936 | [[/folder]] |
| 937 | [[folder:The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild]] |
| 938 | * HouseRules: The Dog% speedrun, being one of many joke categories for [=BotW=] speedrunning. More specifically, though, Sorc was following the rules and route that had been used for a Dog% stream race organised by [=PointCrow=], which was Sorc's inspiration for doing the run to begin with. |
| 939 | |
| 940 | [[/folder]] |
| 941 | |
| 942 | !Other videos |
| 943 | [[folder:Miscellaneous]] |
| 944 | * EpicFail: A short video on Sorc's second channel features the very first GameOver he experienced in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV''. Was he fighting a superboss, or going through one of the difficult dungeons? No, he died from [[spoiler:crashing into a street light on his first time taking off in the [[FlyingCar Regalia Type-F]]]]. |
| 945 | [[/folder]] |
| 946 | [[folder:Arbitrary Audiosurf]] |
| 947 | ->''Let's chill out and surf some sweet tunes.'' |
| 948 | -->-- Description on the series playlist. |
| 949 | |
| 950 | Sorc does not really consider this series to be an LP ''per se'', and does not refer to instalments of it as "episodes". It does not count towards his LP episode total. |
| 951 | |
| 952 | !!This series provides examples of the following tropes: |
| 953 | * AddedAlliterativeAppeal: The series name. |
| 954 | * ArcNumber: "Shiny Tech" is the channel's 'theme tune', so Sorc chose to make it number 13 in the series. He also released it on the 26th of the month.[[note]]i.e. March. He'd have gone for the 13th of April, but that was an on-schedule Monday slot.[[/note]] |
| 955 | * ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: It's ''Audiosurf'', and the videos are released on no particular schedule. Though that's not to say ''what track is surfed'' is arbitrary, as it rarely is. Of the first ten episodes, only episode 9 is totally random (even retroactively speaking), because Sorc just picked a fairly intense song to surf to test rendering settings, and then decided there was no sense in wasting the rendered video. |
| 956 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: Some surfed tracks are used as representation of Sorc's [=LPs=], such as "Live and Learn" for ''Sonic Adventure 2''. So if a game-related track is surfed, but Sorc hasn't done an LP for that game already, be suspicious. |
| 957 | * [[MarathonLevel Marathon Instalment]]: #15 is this. At 42:32 long, it's about eight times as long as the average length of an Arbitrary ''Audiosurf'' video, and three times as long as even the longest "normal" one, Cascade. |
| 958 | |
| 959 | [[/folder]] |
| 960 | [[folder:Feral Chaos Solos]] |
| 961 | ->''In which I smack Feral Chaos around'' |
| 962 | -->-- Pertinent part of the description on the ''Dissidia 012'' playlist. |
| 963 | |
| 964 | Footage from battles against Feral Chaos in ''[[VideoGame/Dissidia012FinalFantasy Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy]]'' using only one character. An old set of videos that had something of a revival with the release of a new video in March 2016, although that will probably be a one-off. |
| 965 | |
| 966 | !!These videos provide examples of the following tropes: |
| 967 | * ShoutOut: "Lightning VII" has Sorc quoting ''{{VideoGame/Undertale}}'''s Sans, complete with the text appearing on screen in Comic Sans font and with the preceding asterisk common to nearly all dialogue in the game. |
| 968 | -->* geeettttttt dunked on!!! |
| 969 | |
| 970 | [[/folder]] |
| 971 | [[folder:UHC]] |
| 972 | ->''Let's put my pitiful survival and combat skills to the test!'' |
| 973 | -->-- Description on the playlist for the first [=Sl1pg8r=] fan server UHC. |
| 974 | |
| 975 | ''Minecraft'' "Ultra Hardcore" matches. |
| 976 | |
| 977 | !!These videos provide examples of the following tropes: |
| 978 | * AddedAlliterativeAppeal: The playlist description for the first Extreme UHC. |
| 979 | -->Hardcore Hermit-helper hostile [[ShoehornedFirstLetter haction]]! |
| 980 | |
| 981 | [[/folder]] |
| 982 |
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